Groton ― City police arrested a Norfolk, Va., man Saturday night after they say he assaulted, strangled and threatened a victim with a handgun during a domestic incident.

Bobbie J. Morman Jr., 49, of Norfolk, Va., was charged with criminal possession of a firearm, possession of large capacity magazine, second-degree strangulation, third-degree assault, disorderly conduct, possession of an assault weapon, threatening, carrying a firearm while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, carrying a pistol without a permit and first-degree reckless endangerment. He was held on a $75,000 bond and was arraigned in New London Superior Court on Monday,

Police said that at 9:20 p.m. they responded to a 911 hangup call at a residence on Fieldside Drive. When officers arrived they determined a domestic assault had occurred, They said the victim was injured but refused medical treatment.

Police said Morman, who was intoxicated and has a previous felony conviction, was in possession of a loaded firearm, ammunition and several loaded large capacity magazines.

Virginia pardon

According to media reports and the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, which worked on Mormon’s case, he was granted a pardon by then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in 2021.

The Innocence project said that after being arrested when he was 18, Morman served more than 22 years of a 48-year prison sentence in connection to a 1993, drive-by shooting in Norfolk, in which no one was injured.

The men who were in the vehicle and the man who testified he was the shooter, all said Morman was never in the car with them. But a jury convicted him based on eyewitness testimony of three counts of attempted malicious wounding and firearms charges.

Morman’s brother had said he was in the car and that the witnesses may have mistook him for his brother.

The Innocence Project took up Morman’s case in 2015, a year before he was released on parole.

The director of The Innocence project, Professor Jennifer Givens, said a team of students talked with all the witnesses and gathered statements and helped draft the pardon petition.