Akeenen Anton Lamar Hunt, 34, Fishers
HANCOCK COUNTY — The trial of a Fisher’s man facing 17 different domestic violence charges is expected to start Tuesday in Hancock County Circuit Court.
Hunt has been charged with two Level 2 felony counts of kidnapping while hijacking a vehicle, a Level 3 felony count of rape, a Level 4 felony count of burglary, 11 Level 6 felony counts of kidnapping, along with charges of domestic battery, intimidation, confinement, leaving the scene of an accident with bodily injury, criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, domestic battery in violation of a no contact order, and two misdemeanor charges from an incident Dec. 13, 2023.
Hancock County Prosecutor Brent Eaton said his office has prepared for the trial with Chief Deputy Prosecutor Aimee Herring, who will handle the lead role in the case. Hunt has three different cases in Hancock County, with the trial this week having the most serious charges.
Hunt filed to have the case dismissed, but the court denied his request July 12 and denied a motion that Hunt had ineffective council. Officials with the prosecutor’s office say the trial could last late into Thursday or Friday.
In the other cases against Hunt, he was charged with 101 Class A misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy where a person violates a protective order as well as four Level 5 felony counts of obstruction of justice stemming from numerous incidents from December of 2023 through January. Those charges were filed in February.
Another case with eight similar invasion of privacy charges was opened against Hunt last week. Those cases are expected to go to trial later this summer. All three cases are related to the same victim.
As for the domestic violence trial starting this week, according to a police report, officers were dispatched Dec. 13, 2023 to a shopping center in the 1900 block of N. State Street to collect a cell phone located with debris from a vehicle accident.
Officers discovered a trail of vehicle debris from the front of Walmart, 1965 N. State Street, to 1659 Melody Lane, where officials found two heavily damaged vehicles. The debris was scattered in parking lots and roadways between Walmart and where the cars were located, more than a quarter mile away, officials said in the report.
Officers later discovered a protection order was in place between the owners of each vehicle, the victim and Hunt, with the victim being protected. Officers spent the next several hours attempting to locate Hunt and the victim but were unable to find either.
Later on Dec. 13, 2023 a person called the Hancock County 911 Center claiming the victim contacted him and asked him to send the police to her residence. He didn’t know the exact address, so he drove to the area, found the address and called 911.
Officers quickly arrived in the area, in the 2300 block of Collins Way, and after knocking several times a female, the victim, opened the front door and gave the officers her name. The victim told officers a man was in her house, and she was quickly taken away to safety while other officers set up a perimeter around the house.
The man, later positively identified as Hunt, eventually came out of the front door and surrendered to officers. The victim was transported to a hospital for medical treatment.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the victim told officials she had previously been in a relationship with Hunt, but that he had strangled her until she lost consciousness. She said that he had been arrested and that a protective order had been put in place in another county.
She noted that on the night of the incident in Hancock County she told Hunt she had moved to Texas, but Hunt found her and broke into her home. According to the affidavit, when she saw him break in she ran out the back of the house and hid. After she saw him leave her home, she went back in and got into her vehicle where her backup cell phone was located. She decided to leave her home and seek help but after she drove away, Hunt hit her vehicle with his multiple times in several different places as she tried to escape.
According to the affidavit, the victim tried to run from Hunt, but was barefoot and has asthma and couldn’t get far. Hunt, she said, eventually caught her and punched her in the face multiple times. Hunt then took the woman to a nearby wooded area and hit her again. The woman told police she thought for certain she was going to be killed.
According to the affidavit, the two walked for a long while and arrived back at her home. The woman, police said, was in “survival mode” telling Hunt what she thought he wanted to hear and doing what he wanted to get Hunt to calm down. After a while he fell asleep, the affidavit said, and she reached out via text and a cell phone call to a friend for help.
