A man charged with threatening to kill a woman during a domestic violence incident at an East Cobb home last week is being held without bail. 
Thomas Joe Garza, 51, was charged last Friday with a felony count of aggravated battery and a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass damage, according to an arrest warrant.
The warrant said that the incident happened at a home on Tritt Springs Trace on March 26, and that the female victim said Garza repeatedly slammed her head to the floor and against a metal pole in a closet, while threatening to kill them both and trying to locate a gun.
According to the warrant, the woman suffered heavy bruising to the left side of her face, as well as to her left ear, and could not hear out of it.
“The victim did have clear fluid coming from her ear that the attending physician described as Cerebrospinal fluid which is typically due to trauma to the spinal cord,” according to the warrant.
The warrant also states that Garza threw a laptop computer to the floor during the incident and destroyed it.
He was taken into custody at the home and is at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond, according to the Cobb Sheriff’s Office.
The warrant states that Garza and the woman are domestic partners, but his booking sheet listed him as homeless.
Cobb Magistrate Court Clerk’s Office records show him living at an address on Roswell Road in East Cobb for this arrest and on a previous warrant for another domestic violence charge in 2010.
He is listed as living at the Tritt Springs Trace address in a separate 2008 domestic violence arrest.
Court records are not available for those previous cases.
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