Donny Aaron, Husband of UFC Fighter Andrea Lee, Faces Domestic Violence Charges
Donny Aaron, the husband of UFC flyweight Andrea Lee, is facing charges of false imprisonment and domestic violence battery stemming from an incident that occurred earlier this month.
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A police report states that officers responded to a domestic incident involving a married couple of five years who have one child together. There was a weapon used in the alleged attack, and Lee suffered a minor injury, but no contact was made with the suspect.
MMA fighter Andy Nguyen,
who lives with Lee and Aaron, offered a more vivid description in a
witness statement to the police that was obtained by MyMMANews.com.
Nguyen claimed that Aaron attempted to burn Lee with a cigarette
and choked her. She added that Aaron has hit Lee in the past and
that the domestic violence has “been going on for years.”
Nguyen’s full statement is as follows:
I’m in the bedroom, I’m trying to sleep, in their house. I can hear them complaining about how Mighty Mouse got robbed. Now the fights were done. I hear Donny yelling down. I sat up in the bed and I’m like ‘what the hell is going on?’ I get a text message from Donny’s mom asking if she needed to come over there. I was like ‘no.’ Then I hear more yelling, he’s cussing her out. So I opened my door and she (Andrea) runs into her daughter’s room. Donny is trying to burn a cigarette on her arm and her body. She’s yelling to stop trying to burn her. Donny’s dad is the only one helping me. His dad is like 70 or 80 years old. There’s another guy named Kendrick there who is this big strong guy, who wouldn’t get out of his room to help me. He put on his headphones and was like ‘this happens all the time.’ He just tuned it out.
“At the time I was not in shock that it was happening, I was just panicking. I ran back into my room and text his mom and said ‘ I do not want to call the cops. Can you come here?’ This was at about 1:30 a.m. (now August 5). I fell back asleep. I wake up at 4:30 a.m. I still here Donny. At 4:30 his mom and dad had left. I turn on my lights and open door so Donny knows I’m awake. Usually he does crazy stuff behind closed doors. I went to the kitchen. I hear them bickering. Then it got quiet. I thought maybe they were done. Then all of a sudden I heard a grunt and the dog was in the kennel and started barking. I can hear her saying “stop, stop.” I opened up the door and was like “Donny, leave her alone.” He looked like he was lost. He hadn’t slept in two days. He was drinking for two f—-ing days straight. I don’t know what he is on. I’m backing up as he is coming towards me. Andrea was buttoning up her shorts and she was barefoot and ran out the back door.
“Then Donny was yelling, “she’s been cheating on me for three f—-ing years.” I was like “no she hasn’t. You’ve been thinking she has. She hasn’t done anything.” Then he saw her running and he was like “oh, no you’re not” and went after her. She’s sprinting. It’s 5:30 a.m. I put on my gym clothes to chase after if I had to. Donny goes back in the house and he’s like “I did it again, I did it again.” I was like ‘what did you do? Did you kill her?’ because he has killed someone before. I didn’t know if he grabbed a rock and banged her head. I was scared to walk outside. He was like no ‘I made her run barefoot again.’ I told him to give me the keys to the jeep and he refused because he thought she would think it is him and would not stop.
I knew there was no gas in the jeep because I drove it home last because Donny was drunk at the bar. He finally gives me the keys and the sun is coming up. I drove to the gas station. I jumped out and called the cops from the gas station. I told them that my best friend is getting hurt from her husband. Gave name and address and like six cops showed up. She had Uber’d to a hotel. I met her at the hotel and I gave her all her belongings and then the cops came over to the hotel and they did the interrogation or investigation or whatever.
I was not there at the house when the cops came but Donny saw the cop cars coming and he ran out the house with his dad and he has been gone ever since.
It’s f—-ed up because Donny used to be a cop. He’s f—-ed up in the head. He was making her do things to try and fake evidence that she was cheating. He was trying to get her to pull her pants off and take pictures to send to a guy so it looked like she sent it. He’s f—-ed up in the head.
They had been arguing all week. She couldn’t train because he kept her home. He wouldn’t let her leave. I didn’t call the cops until it got physical and I couldn’t do nothing anymore.
He was trying to choke her, but she was defending herself well. She didn’t get beat up bad. The police did take pictures of marks on her neck. Wasn’t bad this time. No black eyes or anything but he has hit her before. I just wasn’t there. He was my coach and my friend. This was the first time this was in presence and I was not going to let this fly.
The domestic violence has been going on for years. I just never saw it. Here’s another the thing. The UFC and many other people offered Donny FREE tattoo cover up and he still never did it. You see online, the small swastika on his elbow. I have a bigger picture of a bigger tattoo on the shoulder that nobody knows about. All he had to do was cover the little one but he didn’t. I would have done it for my wife to save her career but he didn’t. This is s----y. It’s not Andrea’s fault. She is sweet and kind and she forgave him all the time. This time, this is it.
Aaron recently came under scrutiny after it was revealed that he had Nazi tattoos on both arms. Aaron apologized for the images, adding that they were scars from a “dark time” in his past when he was imprisoned. However, he added the coverups or laser removal were not viable options for him. Lee defended her husband, who is also her trainer.
“When I met Donny, I asked him about the tattoos because I was curious as well and he told me his story and he was talking about how he changed,” Lee said on the Slip ’n Dip podcast. “I even asked him why wouldn’t he cover them up? I felt the same way. Maybe you should cover them up but he says that it looks terrible already and it would just make it worse. I don’t know. I can’t make him do it. I can’t make him throw something on there.”
Aaron, who is also a former police officer and fighter, has a dark past beyond his ink. In 2009, he was found guilty and convicted of negligent homicide after shooting Ronald Jamison seven times and killing in a confrontation outside his home. While awaiting trial for that incident, Aaron was arrested for allegedly punching his ex-wife’s fiance in the face at the Louisiana Boardwalk. This past February, Aaron was arrested for possession of marijuana by the Caddo-Shreveport Narcotics Unit.
The 29-year-old Lee is a promising talent in the UFC’s flyweight division. She made her Octagon debut at UFC Fight Night 129, where she outpointed Veronica Macedo to increase her overall winning streak to five. The fighter known as “KGB” is 9-2 over the course of a pro career that began in 2014.
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