Byron Jenkins is accused of beating his wife so severely that she was in a coma for two weeks and suffered massive brain damage.
Byron Jenkins WOODBURY -- A Gloucester County man has been indicted on attempted murder charges for allegedly beating his wife into a coma last year.
Byron Jenkins, 46 of Glassboro, is charged with first degree attempted murder and second degree aggravated assault in the case, which prosecutors called an "incredibly violent" attack.
He was arrested in June 2015 after a domestic dispute at the family's Park Crest Village apartment. His wife had suffered serious brain damage and had a fractured skill, jaw and eye socket, according to previous reports.
During a bail hearing in June, Jenkins claimed that his wife had lunged at him with a knife and struck her head on a bedpost, but prosecutors said that claim was false and that she had been beaten with both fists and a lamp. One of her children was found on a bed covered in his mother's blood, they added.
His wife was in a coma for more than two weeks before being moved from Cooper Medical Center to a rehabilitation center. Her current condition has not been released.
Jenkins has previous convictions for robbery and aggravated assault, but no previous criminal history with his wife.
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