Eric Woodrow Hayes, 37, of Austin was charged on Thursday in Mower County District Court with felony terroristic threats-reckless disregard and gross misdemeanor domestic assault.

According to the court complaint, officers were dispatched at 1:24 a.m. on Wednesday to a domestic disturbance call at a residence in the 1000 block of Sixth Avenue Northeast. One officer made contact with Hayes, who was across the street and agitated. Hayes refused to answer questions and instead turned around, placed his hands behind his back and said, “Let’s go. I don’t talk to you or anyone like you.”

Another officer made contact with a woman at the residence who was crying and upset, according to the complaint. She told police she was a relative who had allowed him to move in with her after another relative did not want him at her house anymore. She said Hayes was “dangerous” and had previously threatened to kill her and other family members. She told him to leave the house until he was sober and got him out of the house, but Hayes allegedly started throwing items at the house. He allegedly threatened to hurt her when he came back.

Police photographed a broken window and a nearby broken whiskey bottle, according to the complaint.

A review of Hayes’s criminal record shows prior convictions for disorderly conduct, theft and criminal damage to property.

Hayes will appear in court again on May 17.