From her hospital bed, Trina Hatchett told police that former boyfriend Danny Williams had choked her within the past month.

        But the University of Cincinnati law school student didn't tell police about it until after Mr. Williams shot her and a dinner companion Friday night, Norwood Sgt. John Patrick said Monday.

        Hours after being arraigned Monday morning in Hamilton County Municipal Court, Mr. Williams was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of attempted murder, four counts of felonious assault and two counts of carrying a concealed weapon.

        The 33-year-old man remained jailed in lieu of $200,000 bail late Monday.

        But because of the alleged choking incident and previous threats that Ms. Hatchett described, prosecutors said they will ask Judge Robert P. Ruehlman today to revoke Mr. Williams' bail.

        “She was very adamant,” Sgt. Patrick said, “that if he gets out he will seek her and find her and kill her.”

        Mr. Williams, who county

        records show bought a Northside home with Ms. Hatchett in May, is accused of following the 28-year-old woman throughout the day Friday.

        Then, police say, he shot the pair after confronting them at J Alexander's, a restaurant in Rookwood Pavilion in Norwood.

        Ms. Hatchett, hit once in the upper chest, was in fair condition Monday at University Hospital, a nursing supervisor said. Michael Smith remains in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the lower leg.

        Mr. Smith said from University Hospital on Monday that he and Ms. Hatchett are friends and that she took him to dinner to celebrate his 30th birthday the previous day.

        “He just mentioned, well, did I know that he and Trina were in relations. I said yeah,” Mr. Smith said. “I said, "If you want to talk, we can talk.'

        “He pulled a gun and put it to her head, and I did my best to wrestle it from him,” Mr. Smith recalled. “Then he opened fire, shot her, and I tussled with him and I was trying to get him away from her. He chased me down and shot at me four or five times.”

        Mr. Williams is a 1987 Hughes High basketball star who earned a sports scholarship to Jefferson Davis Junior College in Alabama. He was described by defense attorney Ken Lawson at arraignment as a hard-working man with three kids and no criminal history.

        Mr. Lawson called the shooting “a crime of passion.”

        Following the hearing, Edward Harris of Westwood, who described himself as a longtime friend of both Mr. Williams and Ms. Hatchett, said he was completely surprised by the shooting.

        “He always talked about people who do this,” he said as another friend, Curtis Fails of Erlanger, agreed. “He looked down on that. He always talked about messing up your freedom, like, why would you do that?”

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