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Prosecutors have filed assault and domestic violence charges against Christopher James Bonds, already accused in the fatal shooting of a West Valley City man.
The new charges — two third-degree counts each of discharge of a firearm and aggravated assault, along with three third-degree counts of domestic violence on the presence of a child — were filed in 3rd District Court on Monday.
A probable cause statement alleges that on Nov. 5, the 26-year-old Bonds pinned his wife to a bed and then punched and choked her. When she apparently broke loose and ran from her home, Bonds allegedly threw a whiskey bottle at her, nearly striking their child.
Prosecutors say that Bonds also pulled a handgun, firing several times at the woman as she fled back inside the residence. All the shots missed, and Bonds then fled, according to court documents.
Two weeks later, on Nov. 20, Bonds was arrested after allegedly shooting his friend, Byron Williams, 25, outside an apartment complex at 1821 W. Parkway Blvd. (about 2600 South) in West Valley City. Williams later died at a hospital.
While Bonds has yet to be formally charged in the slaying, he was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of first-degree felony aggravated murder. He remained behind bars on Tuesday in lieu of $20,000 bail.
Bonds' criminal history includes a May 2015 plea bargain in which he admitted to counts of third-degree felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person and class A misdemeanor drug possession.
Court records indicate he failed to show for sentencing, and an arrest warrant was active when he was taken into custody for the homicide case.
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