Bond was set Tuesday for a man who allegedly assaulted a woman while wearing a shirt as pants.
According to investigators, Gil Pilier Morla attacked Niki Gray in front of her children on Sunday as she left a home located off Petzinger Road.
On Monday, Gray said that Morla, 26, used a T-shirt to cover his waist during the attack. In court on Tuesday, it was determined that he was wearing the shirt as a pair of pants, 10TV's Kevin Landers reported.
Gray said that Morla picked up her son, took her purse and hit her.
Morla’s roommate, Fernando Granillo, said that the incident did not sound like something his roommate would do.
“I don’t have any idea to (what) made him crazy,” Granillo said. “Alcohol? I have no idea.”
Granillo said that Morla had celebrated a birthday with family members at his apartment earlier in the day on Sunday.
“They started the party at night, and everybody (in) his family stay here and drink,” Granillo said.
Granillo said that he decided to sleep in his car rather than stay at the apartment. He said that he awoke to police lights and his roommate half naked.
“Strange. I was very confused,” Granillo said.
Morla was put on unpaid administrative leave from his job as a security guard at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
10TV News spoke with Morla last week after police found a car registered in his name that they said was involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed two people.
Morla said that someone else was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash, and investigators were searching for a Morla’s friend, Carlos Cepeda, 30, in connection with the hit-and-run.
Morla's bond was set at $20,000, Landers reported.
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