Ullom found guilty on all charges

A Shoshone County jury has found a 52-year-old Montana resident guilty of attempted strangulation and domestic battery.

Terry Ullom was found guilty on all counts after a week-long major felony trial by the jury.

Ullom was charged in April 2019 by the Shoshone County Prosecuting Attorney filed formal charges against Ullom for attempted strangulation and domestic battery. The events which led to the charges arose from an incident that occurred in the late evening hours on April 1, 2019, wherein Ullom viciously beat and attempted to strangle his girlfriend of 18 years at their home in Mullan.

During the course of the four-day trial, substantial evidence was presented including a graphic audio of the event which was captured in her voicemail logs when Ullom’s phone inadvertently dialed the victim’s phone while the crime was being committed.

Neighbors who heard the altercation were pivotal in providing eye-witness accounts as they called 9-1-1 on the night of April 1, 2019, after hearing a man punching a woman and hearing her subsequent screams for help. During that 9-1-1 call, neighbors can be heard relaying shots fired to the Shoshone County Dispatch.

Once law enforcement arrived, they found Ullom bleeding on the porch with a single gunshot wound to the head, an act that was necessary for the girlfriend to save her own life. As law enforcement contacted the girlfriend, she was visibly shaken, disheveled and suffering from multiple injuries. After being transported to Shoshone Medical Center, one nurse described her injuries as, “the worst case of domestic violence she’s seen in her 26 years working the emergency room.”

The Office of the Prosecuting Attorney would like to thank the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office for its diligence in responding to the scene, the Shoshone County Crisis and Resource Center for their supportive advocacy on behalf of the victim throughout the case, and the courageous witnesses who were willing to come forward and provide information and testimony that was vital to bring about justice in the Silver Valley.

Ullom was immediately taken into custody without bail while he awaits sentencing.