A violent incident among family members has left a Kalispell man with a violent past locked up in the local jail.

Timothy Shawn McCarroll, 45, is in the Flathead County Detention Center on $200,000 bail after being charged with assault with a weapon, choking a family member and witness tampering.

According to charging documents, Kalispell Police officers went to a Two Mile Drive home after a 911 dispatcher received a hang-up call. The dispatcher called back and heard voices, including one asking “where did the knife go” and another saying “I’ll kill you.”

Officers spoke with McCarroll’s sons and a girlfriend of one of them.

An adult son said he heard his brother arguing with his father and when he tried to intervene, McCarroll yelled at him and allegedly choked him. The younger brother broke it up, with the two boys and the girlfriend barricading themselves in a bedroom.

They reported that when McCarroll couldn’t enter the bedroom, he allegedly plunged a knife through the door and said “I’ll kill you.”

After McCarroll was jailed, he allegedly called one of his sons and told him to “tell the District Attorney that you lied” and also said “drop the charges and I won’t go to prison for 10 years.”

Court documents also indicated McCarroll is on probation for aggravated assault, criminal endangerment and intimidation.

McCarroll’s criminal record in Flathead County dates to August 2006 when he threatened a woman. He pleaded guilty and received a three-year suspended prison sentence.

Then, in 2011, McCarroll was arrested and charged with burglary, assault and criminal mischief after entering a woman’s home, grabbing her daughter, and then destroying several hundred dollars’ worth of groceries.

McCarroll entered an Alford plea of guilty to criminal endangerment. A plea deal involved the state not pursuing a revocation of his probation in the 2006 case and a five-year suspended sentence in 2012.

Two years later, McCarroll’s probation was revoked following a 2013 assault and he received five years in prison.

The 2013 assault involved McCarroll and another man hitting and kicking a man. He suffered a broken nose and jaw in the assault which left the victim unconscious.

McCarroll, who faces a maximum prison term of 35 years on the current charges, is scheduled to appear in Flathead County District Court for arraignment at 9 a.m. Thursday in front of District Judge Dan Wilson.

Scott Shindledecker may be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4441.