Over the years, two other women, Walker’s ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend, have also accused him of making threats, telling authorities Walker claimed he would shoot them in the head. His bills of years have resurfaced in recent weeks as Walker, who gained national fame as a college football player at the University of Georgia, launched a campaign for the state seat on the state battlefield. of Peach. The third woman’s account has not been previously reported.
The woman, who was in her early twenties at the time she contacted police, confirmed to CNN this week that Walker had threatened her, but asked that she not be identified and declined to discuss the details of their threats. He stressed that he never went out or had any relationship with Walker.
Walker’s campaign refused to respond to the woman’s accusations or discuss the 2002 police report. In response to questions about the incident, Mallory Blount, a spokeswoman for the campaign, cited Walker’s past struggles. with mental health issues, of which he has spoken publicly.
“It is sad that many members of politics and the media who praised Herschel for his transparency more than a decade ago made false statements, stereotyped, attacked and tried to sensationalize his past by running for the Republican Senate.” , he said. a statement.
Report in detail the claims against Walker
In the May 2002 report, obtained by CNN through a public record application, a police officer from the suburb of Irving, Dallas, wrote that he responded to a “vagabond call.” of a woman who said she believed someone was “sneaking out of her house.” The woman said she “felt she knew who the person would be,” but “she was very reluctant to tell me,” she wrote. the agent, Jason Mullins.
Finally, the woman told Mullins that the person she suspected was Walker. About a year before calling police, the woman told Mullins she had had a “confrontation” with Walker and “he started calling her, making threats to her and guarding her home.” It is not clear from the document what these threats entailed.
He said when he had recently seen Walker at a local resort, the former football star “jumped” into his vehicle and followed her “all the way home,” according to the report.
“She’s very scared (sic) of the individual and she’s afraid he’s going (sic) to start bothering her again,” Mullins wrote. “He advised that he does not want her to be contacted in any way, as he believes this will only make the problem worse.”
Mullins wrote that he spoke to the guard at the entrance to the woman’s neighborhood, who said he had not seen Walker enter the area.
Mullins, who still works for Irving’s police department, said that from what I could tell, the department did not further investigate the woman’s allegations.
“Since he stated he didn’t want us to contact him, it’s unlikely we’ll, but I can’t tell you for sure,” Mullins told CNN. She said the woman’s allegation appeared to have been taken as an “informative report” that would remain on file, rather than a “criminal offense report” that would be forwarded to police investigators.
The report came at a time when Walker’s wife, Cindy Grossman, was divorcing him after nearly two decades of marriage.
The threats continued after the couple separated. In December 2005, Grossman filed a protection order against Walker. Grossman’s sister, Maria Tsettos, said in an affidavit filed with the request that Walker had called her and threatened to kill Grossman and her boyfriend. “He unequivocally stated that he was going to shoot my sister Cindy and her boyfriend in the head,” Tsettos said.
One day that month, Grossman and her boyfriend were in a mall when Walker “passed slowly with his vehicle, pointed his finger (Grossman) and followed her with his finger as he drove,” according to the petition. Walker had called Tsettos again threatening Grossman that same day.
Walker’s book details mental health issues
Walker has spoken publicly about dealing with mental health issues during her marriage to Grossman, saying in interviews and writing in a book that she had been diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as a multiple personality disorder. He said in a 2008 CNN interview that he did not remember being violent with his wife, but he did not deny it and noted that one of the symptoms of his disorder was the blackouts.
In his book, Walker wrote that he sought help for his disorder after another violent episode in 2001, in which he drove through the Dallas area looking for a man who had not been able to deliver a car he bought. Walker wrote that the voices in his head told him to kill the man and that he imagined “the visceral pleasure he would get from seeing the small entrance and the spray of brain tissue and blood — like a pyrotechnic fire on the fourth of July. exploding behind him. “He fought the urge and went to a doctor,” he said, and later wrote his book to destigmatize mental illness.
Later, another Walker-related woman made accusations similar to Grossman’s. Myka Dean, who told police she had an endless relationship with Walker for 20 years, said she had threatened to kill her, according to a 2012 Irving police report.
A police officer wrote that Dean said Walker “told him he was going to sit outside his apartment and” blew his head when he went outside, “the report states. “He said then [Dean] he was going to “blow his head off” after killing her. ”
Dean expressed doubts about the notification of the threat, the agent wrote, saying he did not “want her to have problems” and to become a “reserved force.”
The officer noted that the department had had “prior contact” with Walker, citing another police report from 2001. Irving’s police department declined to release that report this week, saying it was holding back “pending of a request for the opinion of the Attorney General “.
When asked about Dean’s statement to police, Walker’s spokesman Blount said the candidate “emphatically denies these false claims,” calling them examples of “political mud.”
Dean’s mother told the Journal-Constitution she did not know the allegations and added that “we are very proud of the man Herschel Walker has become.”
CNN’s Drew Griffin, Nelli Black, Audrey Ash and Yahya Abou-Ghazala contributed to this report.