Related: This transgender immigrant’s message of love is what we need right nowThe two peeked through the windows after getting no response and saw Rouse lying on the floor unconscious.
Frantic, they called the police, but officers couldn’t enter the apartment since there was no obvious emergency and it wasn’t his apartment.
They didn’t have permission to enter.“I begged and pleaded and was crying and was hyperventilating,” she said.After the police left, a hysterical Darrington convinced staff at the apartment complex to let her into the apartment.
Rouse’s injuries were visible once they were inside the unit.Rouse had marks around his neck, bruises on his knuckles, collapsed lungs, and air trapped in his stomach.