CHERRYVILLE, N.C. — A man pleaded guilty Monday to beating a woman in the head at a Cherryville home in October.
David Sisk said he was prepared to die the night he went on a rampage.
"Basically, it went bad," Sisk said.
He told the judge that he bought drugs at a Cherryville house on Oct. 10.
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But the victim, who lives there, said she kicked him out of the house because he was fighting and threatened to return.
"(He said) that he was going to come back and finish the job," Stephanie Markiwitz said.
Sisk broke back into the house, went into the victim's bedroom and started beating her with a shovel.
"I woke up, and the shovel was hitting my face," Markiwitz said.
She said another man staying at the house intervened and saved her life.
Sisk then barricaded himself in his father's house as police surrounded it.
"He indicated that he wanted to die," prosecutor Stephanie Hamlin said.
Prosecutors said he also threatened to kill police before they shattered the windows and hurled in tear gas.
"I feel bad about what happened," Sisk said.
Family members said Sisk has been in and out of jail since he was 12 years old and he had just been arrested on assault charges three months before the attack.
Sisk told the judge that he was trying to turn his life around.
"I was hanging out with the wrong people," Sisk said.
He was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for the attack.
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