War Machine, the mixed martial arts fighter accused of severely beating his former girlfriend Christy Mack, tried to kill himself in jail as the preliminary court date was postponed.
Machine, also known by his birth name of Jonathan Koppenhaver, was found by a corrections officer late Tuesday with a piece of linen tied around his neck.
The linen was tied to the leg of the bed, and War Machine was sitting on the ground with his feet up on the bunk bed with his face purple.
The officer cut the linen and removed it, reported TMZ.
Koppenhaver was moved to a medical isolation cell on suicide watch.
Machine allegedly tried to murder Mack after finding her with another man, Corey Thomas. Following his capture after a manhunt, he was leveled with dozens of charges in the case.
Meanwhile, Machine’s attorneys have asked the judge to postpone the court date, which was set for Friday, October 17, in order to put together a plea bargain.
The request was granted by Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson, according to Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Koppenhaver’s lawyer Brandon Sua said that he and the defense wants to resent prosecutors with “a plea deal to resolve the case … without further litigation and pretrial proceedings.”
Mack and Thomas were scheduled to testify at the preliminary court hearing.
Tobiasson gave the defense attorneys another month.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jacqueline Bluth warned them, though, that they shouldn’t try to delay the case in an attempt to “ice the victim” or wait for memory of the attack and wounds to subside.
“It is not going to work,” Bluth said. “The victim is always going to be cooperative with us. Both victims in this case want to get this process going.”
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