UPDATE (MARCH 2014): The state expunged the charges from Lee's record.
A UF student was arrested for domestic battery by strangulation, suspended by UF and banned from campus after his ex-girlfriend, also a student, accused him of trying to suffocate her after she prevented him from committing suicide.
Husang David Lee, 19, and his girlfriend of two months broke up after a fight around 1 a.m. on August 21, according to police records filed by his now ex-girlfriend, who is 20.
About four hours after the break-up, when she thought Lee was gone, Lee allegedly entered her apartment bedroom after she had finished talking on the phone.
She refused to take him back, so he left and returned minutes later, she said.
"Can you at least do me a favor? I want you to hold on to something for me," he said when he returned, according to his ex-girlfriend. Then he put a knife in her hand and lunged toward it, she stated.
She kicked him against the bathroom door and hid the knife under her bed, she said. After struggling unsuccessfully to get the knife from under the bed, Lee left the apartment and attempted to jump from the second floor, but she grabbed him and pulled him to safety before he went over the railing, according to his ex-girlfriend's statement to police.
After trying to climb to the third story of the apartment, she convinced him to return to the apartment, where he went to kitchen to get another knife.
She screamed while pulling and shoving him. He grabbed her mouth and shushed her, saying, "[I]f you don't shut up I'm going to choke you until you pass out," she told police.
After another struggle for a knife, he covered her mouth and pinched her nose shut until she was lightheaded, she stated.
Then she heard a knock at the door, which turned out to be the police.
Lee was charged with domestic battery by strangulation, a felony, and was suspended and banned from UF's campus. He was arrested again Thursday after trespassing at the Reitz Union Colonnade.
Lee, a health education and behavior major, was listed as president of the Korean Undergraduate Students Association. His ex-girlfriend is listed as an officer.
Lee, who could not be reached by e-mail for comment, has entered a plea of not guilty.
