McCordsville man accused of battering, choking woman in front of 3-year-old [Video]

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A McCordsville man is facing a strangulation charge and several other felonies after police said he held a woman against her will during a domestic battery incident earlier this month.

Officers with the McCordsville Police Department were dispatched on April 14 to a home on Birmingham Avenue in response to reports of a domestic disturbance. According to the probable cause affidavit, a woman claimed that a man identified as Vivekananda Bikka had allegedly kicked her several times in the back, choked her and “tried to kill her.”

The woman had reached out to authorities from a neighbor’s residence after reportedly escaping from Bikka following the attack. Court documents show that officers observed red marks on the woman’s neck after arriving on the scene.

The woman who called dispatch was described by responding officers to be visibly distraught as she was seen “crying, breathing heavily and her …