Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in Malcolm around 10 p.m. Sunday night after a report of a domestic disturbance.
A woman told deputies that she was riding with 36 year old Michael Kometscher when they started arguing. The woman said at one point Kometscher stopped the vehicle and shook the woman and pushed her out of the vehicle. The woman told deputies she tired to call her adult son but Kometscher took the phone and broke it.
Kometscher drove home and the woman’s adult son was at the residence. The two men started fighting. The son stated that Kometscher started strangling him and the two fell over a railing and a glass door was broken. There were two children, ages 7 and 8 at the home at the time of the fight.
Kometscher left the area and was found inside a camper near Malcolm. He was booked for strangulation, domestic assault, criminal mischief and child abuse.