Man punched her twice and then bit her on the neck, cops say. His brother had a gun

It all started because one Bradenton man was upset over a prank the female victim played on him, according to law enforcement.

The anger escalated to the point of violence around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and culminated with his brother pulling a firearm and threatening the victim’s life, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

According to a probable cause affidavit, one of the brothers punched the female victim twice in the face. As the victim tried to get away, cops say he then bit her on the right side of her neck.

While the woman and man continued the struggle, the man’s brother, Malkija Underwood, 20, came out of his room with a long, black rifle, loaded it with a magazine and pointed it at the victim, according to the report.

“I am going to kill you,” Malkija Underwood allegedly told the victim, who described the weapon to police as an, “assault style rifle.”

Destiny Underwood, the boys’ mother said there are no guns in her house other than paintball guns and pellet guns. The “assault rifle” the victim claimed to have seen is a pellet gun she herself had purchased. As to the allegations of any kind of assault against the victim, “There were no marks on her, she was not inside my house and if my boys are both over six feet and if you got beat up by those boys, you would know it,” the mother told the Bradenton Herald on Thursday.

The victim claims she got away from Underwood’s brother by kicking him in the groin and fled the residence to call police.

Deputies made contact with the brothers who also denied the victim was ever at their residence, however she had a text message from one of the brothers inviting her over. Destiny Underwood said the female should have showed deputies all of the texts that would have proven what her boys had told police.

The son who engaged the victim physically wasn’t charged at the scene, but the case was turned over to the state attorney’s office for consideration of charges. Malkija Underwood was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and remains in custody.

This story was originally published June 13, 2019 at 1:20 PM.