MIRAMAR, Fla. – The Miramar Police Department’s SWAT team responded to a home Wednesday morning after a man barricaded himself inside following a domestic battery, authorities said.
The battery was reported in the 6100 block of Southwest 32nd Street.
Miramar police said the man beat his girlfriend before she was able to escape from the house.
According to authorities, the woman’s child was still sleeping inside as her boyfriend barricaded himself inside the home while armed with a gun.
The man is not the child’s biological father, police confirmed.
The suspect was later identified by police as Kenneth Daniel Mithoff, 32, who authorities say is currently on felony probation.
According to his arrest report, Mithoff choked the victim and pointed a loaded handgun at her, threatening to kill her.
Police said the man eventually came out of the house and surrendered to authorities.
A Local 10 News crew was at the scene as the child, who appeared to be OK, was outside the home wearing pajamas.
Police said the child’s mother was beaten pretty badly, however her exact condition has not yet been released.
According to the arrest report, the couple has lived at the home together for about five months and have no children in common.
Further details about what led up to the incident were not immediately known.
Mithoff faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, domestic battery by strangulation, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
Local 10 photojournalist Lani Yasuk-Carrier contributed to this report.