An 18-year-old Bismarck man is in custody after holding a local high school girl against her will and assaulting her because she wouldn’t date him.
The incident happened last Wednesday after the suspect, Preston Lang, picked the girl up from school. The victim alleges that Lang took her phone, refused to let her leave the vehicle, and later forced her into a local residence. Inside the home, Lang allegedly began choking and assaulting the victim before he tried to hang himself with a cord.
A family friend interrupted the assault and returned the girl to school.
Lang was arrested last Friday and faces such charges as aggravated assault, felonious restraint, and terrorizing.
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