A Florida man is accused of kidnapping his girlfriend, beating her, and threatening to kill her and her family in an alleged display of domestic violence.

Nicolas Guy, 22, has been charged with kidnapping by false imprisonment, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, domestic battery by strangulation , making written threats to kill, and obstructing justice, per Palm Beach County court records .

The alleged confrontation began on Saturday, when the girlfriend picked Guy up from work at about 9 p.m. and brought him to his home in Riviera Beach. They had been dating for eight months.

While they were in his apartment complex parking lot, he "struck her in the left eye with a grinder and broke several fingernails on both of her hands," the girlfriend told police. As she tried to defend her

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