INDIANAPOLIS -- Witnesses told police they heard yelling and a sound like bodies hitting the wall coming from the apartment where Tasha Allen was killed Friday.
The 34-year-old woman was strangled to death inside an apartment in the 1100 block of West 35th Street. Her boyfriend, 42-year-old Tarik Fields, told police he had strangled her in self-defense when she attacked him with a knife.
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But according to a probable cause affidavit filed Tuesday in the case, investigators found no evidence of a physical struggle inside the apartment and no injuries on Field’s body. A steak knife was recovered from the living room floor.
Neighbors told police they heard a man and woman yelling and then a rumbling, like a body hitting a wall. They also said they’d heard Fields and Allen arguing consistently in the past.
Fields was taken into custody at the scene. He was formally charged Tuesday with one count of murder.
Court records show Fields was charged previously with domestic battery in April 2004 and January 2006. Those charges were later dismissed. He was convicted of criminal confinement, battery and strangulation in 2012 and sentenced to 736 days in prison.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Fields was being held at the Marion County Jail without bond. An initial hearing had not yet been set.
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