Timothy Allen Parker, 34 of 705 2nd St.

Monday, April 23, 2001

Timothy Allen Parker, 34 of 705 2nd St. S.W., remains in the Mower County Jail after his arrest earlier today.

According to an Austin Police Department report, Parker faces charges of making terroristic threats and interfering with a 9-1-1 call.

Austin police were called to the Parker residence he shares with two sons, ages 14 and 16, to intercede in a domestic argument at 10:38 p.m. Wednesday. The father and a son were arguing over pants the teenager allegedly wore, which belonged to a friend.

The father allegedly spit into the face of the youth and punched him, according to the report, and the teenager did the same in response to his father.

The pair agreed to cease fighting and officers left the residence.

At 1:01 a.m. today, officers returned to the residence after the Austin – Mower County Law Enforcement Center received two 9-1-1 calls from the Parker home.

The father refused to give a statement to police, but his sons told officers their father awoke them in the middle of night and started arguing once again about the pants issue.

The father went into the kitchen and retrieved a 7-inch long knife and returned to the boys’ bedroom and allegedly threatened them with the knife.

One of the sons raced from the bedroom to another room and dialed 9-1-1, only to have his father disconnect the telephone.

The youth went to another room to use another phone and was able to reach the LEC and call for help.

Parker was taken to the jail, while officers called his estranged wife, the mother of the teenage sons, and the mother called her parents at Rochester, who came to Austin and took the boys to their home for safety.

Man hospitalized after altercation

Hector Estrada, 21 of Austin, was hospitalized after suffering wounds to his neck and back, during an altercation at 12:34 a.m. Sunday.

Estrada was injured at an apartment of a female friend at 301 South Main St. Eyewitnesses told police, Estrada had been at a dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall and walked to the residence with another friend.

According to the witnesses, when he was asked to go to bed, he became belligerent and started throwing beer bottles around the apartment, breaking other glass and smashing furniture.

When police arrived, Estrada was outside the residence being attended to by friends. He suffered a 4-inch gash to his throat and other cuts to his back.

Estrada refused to cooperate with Austin police officers and had to be restrained with handcuffs. He was rushed to Austin Medical Center’s emergency room for treatment of his wounds.

Estrada, who was obviously intoxicated to the eyewitnesses at the apartment and police officers, refused to give a statement to investigators.