Charlottesville private equity boss charged with assault, strangulation after fight with girlfriend [Video]

A Charlottesville private equity firm manager has been arrested after a pair of late February altercations that allegedly injured his girlfriend.

Thomas Allen Carver, a 56-year-old Albemarle County resident and founder of Charlottesville-based Harren Equity Partners, has been charged with felony strangulation as well as assault and battery.

“She said the forensic nurse advised that there were [broken] blood vessels and visible signs of injury to her windpipe,” an Albemarle County police detective wrote in his criminal complaint.

Nathalie Grace Marcano told an investigator that she and Carver were arguing inside a vehicle when he tossed her phone out of the window and struck her face and pulled her hair, according to the complaint. The complaint also states that Marcano scratched Carver’s face during the struggle. Things got even more heated when the two arrived at Carver’s Ivy-area residence, the complaint alleges.

“He admitted that he did push Nathalie to …