Ontario man charged with attempted murder for alleged spousal abuse

An Ontario man charged Wednesday with attempting to murder his wife is a fugitive from the law, and may have fled to Mexico, his wife told police this week.

Juan Marrufo Cisneros' wife told police that on Aug. 25, Cisneros choked her, repeatedly punched her in the face and sliced her chin with broken glass. He then fled and has not been located by police.

On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Cisneros, 32, with attempted murder, inflicting corporal injury on a spouse, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

Cisneros' wife told police that her husband of nine years became angry after she spanked the couple's middle child. The couple has three children, the woman told police.

Cisneros ordered the children into a separate room, and then initiated the attack on his wife by pushing her, causing her to fall onto a table and break it, the wife told Ontario police officer Khajag Peltekian, according to Peltekian's report.

Cisneros then straddled his wife as she lay on the ground. He punched her in the face several times, pounded her head into the ground, and began to choke her, the wife told police.

Fearing for her life, the wife said she found a piece of broken glass on the ground and swung it at Cisneros. She told police she wasn't sure whether she hurt Cisneros with the glass.

Cisneros then picked up a piece of glass and swung it at his wife, slicing her chin, the wife told police. He fled the home in the 600 block of East Phillips Street on foot.

When police arrived at the home after receiving a 9-1-1 call, Cisneros' wife was sitting on the sidewalk in front of the home, bleeding from her chin.

Her hands and the front of her shirt were covered with blood, Peltekian wrote.

In a follow-up interview Monday, Cisneros' wife told police that her husband probably fled to Mexico. She said she hadn't seen him since the night of the alleged attack.

Bail for Cisneros was set at $400,000 when his case was filed.