Gregory L. Trujillo is being held in the Lewis County Jail on $500,000 bail.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A 58-year-old man accused of beating a woman and attacking her with a knife at her Winlock home will get his chance to make his plea in Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday morning.
Gregory L. Trujillo is being held on $500,000 bail following his arrest last week for the incident.
He is charged with first-degree assault.
The Toledo area man appeared before a judge in a wheel chair last week. Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke noted he worked as a longshoreman, is a longtime area resident and has lots of family ties to the community.
Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Nelson told the judge Trujillo had July 2012 convictions for second-degree assault with a deadly weapon and felony harassment.
Trujillo was picked up by police the night before at a Chehalis motel after his release from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Toledo Police Department Chief John Brockmueller said the night it happened, Trujillo sustained wounds to his abdomen and the woman had lacerations to her upper extremities. She declined an ambulance and was going to the hospital with a friend.
Police were still working the following Monday to figure out who did what.
Charging documents in the case don’t offer any clues about a disagreement between the two before the assault.
They give the following account of the emergency response about 9:30 p.m. on April 1 to the 300 block of Cedar Court in Winlock.
Police documented blood smears and splatters at various locations throughout the woman’s house. They were unable to locate the weapon, but were told it was a small-bladed knife.
The woman had multiple bruises on different parts of her body, a black eye swollen shut. She sustained a large deep gash from the palm of her hand near her ring finger to the outer portion of her hand near her wrist.
She was located at a neighbors. Trujillo was still inside the house.
Officers surrounded the residence and made multiple attempts to contact him with no response and finally made entry and found him in a bedroom, with what appeared to be stab wounds to his belly.
No information is included regarding a police interview with Trujillo.
The woman however, spoke to police.
She said the two had been in an intimate relationship for a couple of months, and on that date, he found her at a neighbor’s and asked if he could speak with her at her house. She agreed.
“As the victim walked into her house, the defendant began beating her with his closed fists,” Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Sheila Weirth wrote. “The victim tried to get away by moving toward the back of the house, while the defendant kept on hitting her, kicking her and even biting her.”
She said he pulled out a knife with a black handle and began attacking her. She used her hands to try to protect herself.
She managed to get back to the living room and as she moved to escape out the front door, Trujillo yelled, “You’re not leaving here alive, Bitch!”
At that point the neighbor knocked, the victim opened the door and the two fled.
Judge Richard Brosey last Thursday afternoon appointed Centralia attorney Don Blair to represent Trujillo. A no-contact order was also put into place.
Trujillo’s arraignment is Thursday morning.
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For background, read “News brief: One booked for Winlock knife incident” from for Thursday April 7, 2016, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Fuck this asshat. I would like to see him try that shit with Grace Barker and her boyfriends 10in switchblade. She would have killed this fucker dead in one shot. I’m not suggesting Mental Ilness is a superpower or anything, but of a things worth doing. It’s worth doing right. This is the blade weilding peice of trash that NEEDS a life sentance. Not the product of the morons at the childrens administration and co-dependants who cant understand that your not working an honest alanon program if your still catering to addicts that pretend an associates degree is as good as a phd and call self medicating mentally ill people addicts because thier husband used to get drunk and beat on them for to many years.
No shit? What does jnet have to do with this? I just love how the .5 percent of this county rant and rave and are cop haters, when reality is that .5 percent are criminals!
I can only assume that just a small sum of the narcotics that have been removed from the streets just might of belonged to Hernandez, why else would he broach the subject out of the blue unless he has something to lose or has already lost something
re; Hernandez , WTF does that have to do with a domestic assault ???
Yes and where is all the cash going that is seized by JNET? If drug seizures and forfitures are goung so well then why are Taxes being raised every year. The money being seized could go to the EMS and Fire Department. Who is auditing our Local police. Thats right no one. All this money they take from drug dealers and still no body or dash cameras. Yet every year the police call you by phone and ask for donations. Seems to me that the real gang members all dress a like and are protected from their crimes by their shiney tin badge. Want the real news about police. Go to Pinac.com
When will jnet accept my iinvitation to account for the o”3,000,0000 of narcotics they claimed to have removed from the streets of lewis county in the first six months of 2015? The answer is never because its a lie. When will these guys be exposed as liars and leeches? They most certainly are just that. It’s time to expose these dogs.
At this age its easier to love than Hate. You would figure these two could act like adults. In a few more years he could retire, now hes looking at an Extended stay makeing vehicle plates at Walla Walla. Really cant teach this old dogs new tricks, so sad.