Jonesboro Victim Says Her Son Saved Her Life During Alleged Attempted Murder

JONESBORO, Ark. — Jonesboro police arrested 33-year-old Jeremy Delvridge on November 1, 2025. The arrest comes following an incident with an ex in which Delridge is accused of breaking into her home and threatening her at gunpoint, even firing off shots from the alleged victim’s own weapon.

The victim recounted the incident in an interview with NEA Report.

“It was a little bit before midnight, and I was asleep in my bed, and I woke up to someone banging on my window,” the victim recalled. “I jumped up and ran to the window to see who it was, and it was Jeremy. He was yelling for me to open the door.”

The victim said she opened the door to keep Delvridge from awakening her teenage sons. That’s when she said, “He closed the door behind us, grabbed me by my arm, and pulled me to my bedroom.

The victim said she has no idea what triggered the incident.

“A lot of the things he was saying weren’t really coherent. He’d been drinking. He brought a bottle of liquor with him,” she recounted.

The victim said she lost track of him because she lost consciousness. “He kept choking me,” she said. “Everything would black out and then, I’d be catching my breath and he was already right back to it,” the victim remembered.

She described the incident to NEA Report: “The speed and the pressure in the way he was deliberately grabbing my neck at the same time…and slamming my head against the wall.”

The victim reported that Delvridge scared her to the point that she urinated on herself. She said Delvridge ridiculed her for that and ordered her to the shower.

“He told me that I was disgusting and embarrassing,” she remembered.

The victim said that while she was in the shower, Delvridge put a gun up against her head, right under her mouth, and fired.

“When he put it to me, I jerked away. It scared me, but when I jerked away at the same time, I heard the gunshot ringing,” she told NEA Report

“I looked up and saw the bullet hole, and I started crying,” she continued.

According to Delvridge’s ex, when she recovered from his initial assault, she knew she needed help.

During the confrontation, the victim’s two teenage sons woke up from sleep. Concerned, the older of the two approached the bathroom where Delvridge was holding her.

She said she’s not sure her younger son initially realized what was happening. Remembering the incident, she recounted, “I remember seeing him and trying to speak, and I wasn’t able to because of how tight Jeremy had a hold on my neck.”

According to the victim, the older of her sons at home during the incident was more intuitive. She said he ordered Delvridge to leave the home.

The victim said that’s when Delvridge tried to convince her 17-year-old son that there was no problem. She said Delvridge instructed her to tell her children they were “just playing around.”

While the victim’s older son distracted Delvridge, she was able to make her initial escape and have her younger son call for help.

“I was so scared he was going to get me, I ran around and hid under police cars,” the victim described.

Police caught Delvidge very soon after. He now faces the following charges:

• aggravated residential burglary, a Class Y felony
• criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder, a Class A felony
• first-degree terroristic threatening, a Class D felony
• aggravated assault on a family or household member, a Class D felony
• possession of a firearm by certain persons, a Class D felony
• tampering with physical evidence, a Class D felony
• theft by receiving a firearm, a Class D felony
• fleeing, endangering the welfare of a minor, criminal mischief, and discharging a firearm within the city limits, all misdemeanors.

Bail was set at $350,000 cash or surety by Judge Tommy Fowler during Wednesday’s 8.1 hearings in Craighead County. A no-contact order and GPS ankle monitor requirement were also included in the judge’s orders.

Delvridge’s ex told NEA Report she still lives in fear. She detailed one final interaction between Delvridge and her 17-year-old son.

“He says something about being in a gang, telling him that nothing mattered because he has guns all across Arkansas and could have anyone do what he wants to them,” she said of the conversation with her son.

The victim said she is afraid to return home, but certain things require her family to be here.

“They have to go to school, so they have to be staying with friends,” she said. However, she hopes to get her house safe and secure for her children so that they can all be together in Jonesboro.

She said of her relationship with her sons, “They really are amazing.”

She continued, speaking of her middle son’s actions on the night of the incident. “I don’t think I would even be here today if it weren’t for him.”

Delvridge faces up to life in prison on the Class Y felony charge.