1Mt. Airy man jailed after threatening to kill girlfriend and her kids

FREDERICK, MD — He told police he was scared to go back to prison — but his actions sealed his fate. A 42-year-old Mt. Airy man with a violent domestic history was sentenced Tuesday to 44 years in state prison after a Frederick County jury found him guilty of first-degree assault for a brutal attack on a woman he had been dating for only a few weeks.

Gary Michael Gouge was handed the decades-long sentence by Judge Terrence McGann following a chilling January assault that left the victim screaming inside his Buffalo Road home, where she was found shaking and crying by a sheriff’s deputy. Gouge, who was already on probation for a previous domestic attack, strangled the woman, slammed her into a wall, and pulled a knife

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