A former Union

City police officer admitted in court Thursday morning that he struck

his ex-girlfriend several times at her Fayetteville home July 31 of last

year.

Samuel Howard

Goodall, 40, also admitted to leaving the scene after Suzanne Phillips

called 911. But he denied that he sexually assaulted her, denied that

he kidnapped her by pulling her down the hallway to her bedroom, and denied

that he pointed his gun at her during their physical altercation.

Phillips, however,

said Goodall pulled off her shorts and sexually assaulted her, he threw

her into a wall and then pointed his holstered gun at her.

"He told

me he could put a bullet in my head and nobody would ever know,"

Phillips said Wednesday afternoon. "And I begged him to stop and

he was pointing it at me. I asked him what was wrong with him ... and

would he please put the gun down. And he did."

Goodall is

charged with aggravated assault with intent to rape, aggravated assault

with a deadly weapon, kidnapping with bodily injury and aggravated sexual

battery. The jury was still deliberating the case at press time Thursday

afternoon.

Phillips testified

that the physical confrontation began when Goodall pulled her