El Dorado police investigating domestic battery incidents

An altercation between siblings Wednesday resulted in serious injuries for one and the arrest of the other on a felonious charge of domestic battery.

David K. Christopher, 61, of El Dorado, was arrested for second-degree domestic battery after police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance at the siblings’ residence in the 900 block of East Elm.

Officers were called to the scene at just before 4 p.m.

Christopher is accused of shoving his sister, also 61, to the ground after she asked him to remove his cigarette butts from the driveway.

She said Christopher became irate and an argument ensued.

She said her brother pushed her, causing her to fall and strike her face on the concrete pavement.

Police said Christopher’s sister was on the ground when they arrived and she had a small laceration on her right eye.

They said she complained of pain in her left hip and was not able to stand.

She was transported by ambulance to Medical Center of South Arkansas, where officers later learned that her hip and wrist were broken.

According to police, Christopher admitted shoving his sister to the ground, telling police that she kicked him while he was picking up the cigarette butts.

A witness corroborated Christopher’s sister’s account of the incident.

Man burned during argument

An El Dorado man was burned on several areas of his body earlier this week when his ex-girlfriend allegedly doused him with a flammable liquid and set it on fire during an argument in the area of Bradley and Robinson.

Police said the 42-year-old man sustained non-life-threatening burns and burn blisters on his face, neck, back and hands as a result of the incident.

The victim was treated and released from Medical of Center of South Arkansas, police said.

At approximately 7 p.m. Monday, officers were called to MCSA in reference to a domestic battery incident.

They spoke with the victim, who said that between 11 a.m. and noon that day, he was walking to his mother’s residence in the 1200 block of Robinson when the suspect drove up, exited her vehicle and confronted him in the intersection.

The man said that when the argument escalated, he turned toward his mother’s house and as he began walking away, the woman poured “an unknown liquid down his back and lit him on fire.”

The suspect then got back into her vehicle and drove away, he said, telling officers that he then removed his shirt, which was ablaze.

A neighboring house also sustained fire damage that reportedly stemmed from the incident.

Officers responded at 1:30 p.m. Monday to a report of criminal mischief at another residence in the 1200 block of Robinson, hours before receiving the call about the fire victim.

A man told police that the porch skirting on his house had been damaged by fire.

He said he was not home when the incident occurred, explaining that his neighbor, the victim’s mother, told him that a man and woman had been fighting in front of the complainant’s residence.

The man said he learned that the “male was lit on fire by the female” as the pair argued and that the male had removed his hat and shirt while they were on fire and thrown the hat near the residence.

The porch skirting then caught fire on the north side of the residence, the man told police.

Police said the skirting was destroyed. Investigators said they collected the fire-damaged hat and shirt as evidence. They have not said if they have been able to determine the liquid that was used in the incident.