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S.J. man charged with trying to kill girlfriend

POSTED: Monday, March 23, 2009, 9:54 AM

Inquirer staff writer Sam Wood reports:

A South Jersey man has been charged with attempted murder after he strangled his girlfriend and threw her from the balcony of a Marlton apartment building, police say.

Brett Picciotti, 26, of Berlin, is being held on $250,000 bail at the Burlington County Jail.

Police said an argument between Picciotti and his 26-year-old girlfriend erupted into violence about 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the woman’s apartment at The Hollows on Woodhollow Drive in Evesham Township.

Picciotti allegedly throttled the woman with his hands then picked her up and threw her from a second story balcony.

Picciotti fled and police later found him at a relative's shore house in Brigantine.

The woman, who was transported to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, was not seriously injured, police said.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:40 AM, 03/23/2009

I am so tired of reading these types of stories! How is it that some men have it in their minds that violence is a suitable tool for resolving conflict in a relationship? This couple must have been having some serious problems before this, and someone should have just walked away from this toxic relationship. Now he's going to jail, and she has to live with the trauma of recovering from a murder attempt by someone she loved. How sad.

— cosmosmom

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:52 AM, 03/23/2009

as oprah says if he hits you once he will hit you again

— lane103

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:25 PM, 03/23/2009

As Chris Rock once said...there are a number of situations in life when you want to do something............but....you just don't do it...........ILUVPHILLYCITYOFCHAMPIONS!!!!!

— ILUVPHILLYCITYOFLOSERS

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:03 PM, 03/23/2009

Everyone wants to be Chris Brown nowadays

— NEPHILLY215

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:36 PM, 03/23/2009

NE Philly,People were abusing women long before Chris Brown

— ralph

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:55 PM, 03/23/2009

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as murder. Just because you did not get it right does not mean the law should go easy on you. Let him off easy and next time the incompetant loser may keep his hands on her throat a little longer and throw her from a higher building. This is probalby already the crime of the century in Marlton.

— towman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:28 PM, 03/23/2009

I wondered what she did to tick him off? Let that be a lesson to you ladies.. Don't be hating..

— Lumpyone

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:13 PM, 03/23/2009

Lumpyone and Jay What is wrong with you guys.no guy should put there hands on any lady..what lesson is learn here he is sitting in jail that is what he needs but once a woman abuser always will be one....you should walk away....no man would ever put his hand on me...there is no excuse for it..what so ever..

— Babetta