The online communications director for Rep. Sander M. Levin faces criminal domestic violence charges for allegedly hitting his male lover with a red and black shovel and lunging at him with a knife, CQ Roll Call reports.
Hannah Hess of Roll Call reports that the incident took place on Oct. 8 around 2:30 a.m. in a Baltimore home.
Levin staffer Tim Foster allegedly brutally beat his male lover, who was hospitalized with abrasions and bruises on his upper back, neck and torso, the Capitol Hill paper reported.
Foster was arrested last week and later released, Roll Call reports. He face second-degree assault and dangerous weapons charges and is on unpaid leave from Levin's office.
Roll Call reports:
The dispute started around 12:30 a.m. inside a Northwest Baltimore home, when Foster, 32, got into a verbal argument with the 39-year-old black male identified as his boyfriend.
Foster put his boyfriend in a choke hold and stated, “I want to kill you. Die dirty faggy,” the man later told police. Foster released him, then allegedly grabbed a stainless kitchen knife. As the boyfriend fled toward the stairs, Foster chased him and warned, “When you reach the fifth step, I am going to stab you.”
Foster lunged at his boyfriend with the knife. But Foster’s wife “got in the way” and the knife then fell to the floor, the report states.
Roll Call reports that the boyfriend told police he tried escaping, but Foster struck him in his upper back with a small black and red shovel and continued hitting him until he got into his car.
Levin's office declined comment, according to Roll Call.