Man accused of choking, striking woman

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A Cheektowaga man who is accused of choking and striking a woman, was in court Tuesday morning.

Twenty-five-year-old Antoine Garner is accused of choking a 43-year-old woman in June. Garner is accused of choking the woman in a vacant house on Jewett Avenue until she lost consciousness, and then striking her in the forehead with a foreign object.

Garner was arraigned on an indictment charging him with second-degree strangulation and second-degree assault.

Garner faces a maximum prison sentence of seven years on each count.

Garner was questioned but never charged in the death of Amanda Wienckowski in 2009

News 4 spoke with Garner in 2009 when he was the person of interest in Wienckowski's death.