Woman sentenced on charges reduced from attempted deliberate homicide

A Havre woman was sentenced this week in District Court in Havre to seven-and-a-half years plus 10 years probation after pleading guilty to charges reduced from counts including attempted deliberate homicide.

Brooke Ann Black Tongue, born in 1988, was charged May 14, 2018, with felony counts of attempted deliberate homicide, partner or family member assault by strangulation and assault with a weapon and misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint and resisting arrest after a former girlfriend said Blacktongue had attacked her April 28, 2018.

April 23 of this year, the charges were amended to felony counts of aggravated assault and strangulation. Blacktongue pleaded guilty to those charges in a plea agreement.

Monday, state District Judge Olivia Rieger sentenced Blacktongue to 15 years with 10 suspended on the assault charge, to run following a two-and-a-half year sentence on the strangulation charge with credit for 71 days served. She ordered Blacktongue to pay court fees and surcharges and a charge of $100 per offense and to register as a violent offender.

Officers responded April 28, 2018, when the victim called to say she was being attacked. Upon arrival, they separated the victim and Blacktongue.

The victim said Black Tongue refused to let her leave after she came to the residence to collect her possessions. She said Black Tongue blocked the door and then began to hit her and then strangled her and threatened her with a knife. She said she was able to get free after she was able to kick Black Tongue in the face.