Woman being attacked texts mom code word for help, Nevada officials say
A woman texted her mother a code word for help during an attack in Nevada, officials said.
The mother called 911, law enforcement responded and now 41-year-old Anthony Selleck — the accused attacker — has been convicted in connection with battery by a probationer and domestic battery by strangulation, the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office said in a June 3 news release.
McClatchy News reached out to Selleck’s attorneys June 4 and was awaiting a response.
Selleck and the woman were in a relationship, prosecutors said.
She picked him up on Dec. 16, 2024, and he yelled at her and used his belt to strangle her, prosecutors said, citing an interview the woman gave detectives.
The woman pulled over, they argued, and Selleck got in the driver’s seat and “beat the victim before he began driving around,” prosecutors said.
The woman’s mother called 911 after she got a text with the code word they’d set up after a prior incident with Selleck, prosecutors said. In the mom’s 911 call, she said Selleck screamed threats and took the phone when she tried to reach her daughter, prosecutors said.
Law enforcement tracked Selleck and the woman to Carson City, where the woman escaped in the parking lot of a movie theater, prosecutors said.
Selleck is scheduled to be sentenced in July, prosecutors said.
“This conviction reflects our unwavering commitment to protecting survivors and holding abusers accountable,” District Attorney Chris Hicks said in the news release.
Carson City is about a 32-mile drive south from Reno.
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