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BY KEITH EPPS
Deputies kicked down a door early yesterday to rescue a man who they said was being pummeled by his wife in his Spotsylvania County home.
Capt. Will Petry said dispatchers received a 911 call from a cell phone about 2:45 a.m. The call came from the Grantwood subdivision, but authorities couldn't immediately pinpoint the location.
A second call came a short time later, and this time dispatchers heard a man in the background screaming for help.
Deputies Daniel Babcock and Kevin Walsh got to a home on Sharon Road about six minutes later and heard yelling and screaming inside, Petry said.
After the deputies knocked on the door, the man yelled for them to kick it down. They did.
They found 29-year-old Sean Foy bleeding heavily from the head and falling down a flight of stairs, Petry said.
His wife was right behind him, still swinging at him. Deputies restrained her and called for help for her husband.
An investigation revealed that Foy and his wife, 30-year-old Meredith Courtney Brown, had just returned from an outing during which Foy played with his band.
The couple had been separated, but had gotten back together that night, Petry said.
It was not clear what they were arguing about, but police accuse Brown of repeatedly bashing her husband in the head with a glass coffee cup.
Brown was charged with malicious wounding, domestic assault and battery and preventing someone from calling 911. Petry said she is accused of taking Foy's cell phone and breaking it after he called 911 a second time.
She was placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond. Foy was treated at Mary Washington Hospital and released.
Brown's arrest record lists her occupation as a teacher in Spotsylvania. However, a secretary with the county school system yesterday said there was no record of her in the files.
Keith Epps: 540/374-