Just hours before being found dead in a northeast Bend house on Saturday morning, 41-year-old Patty Darlene Flynn was both threatened with death and physically abused by her boyfriend James Byron Coon, 52, according to witnesses and family interviewed by Bend Police.

Coon is charged with Flynn’s murder in the case and is being held without bail at the Deschutes County Jail.

According to court documents, Coon told Portland police Flynn’s face had been in a pillow. He said he did not mean for it to have happened that way. He tried to help her. And, he said, he loved her.

Flynn was found dead lying in a bed at Coon’s home at 436 1/2 NE Clay Ave., shortly after 6 a.m. A pillow lay near her head, according to court documents made public on Monday.

The search warrant affidavits gave witnesses’ accounts of the events that ended with Flynn’s death.

The evening before Flynn’s death, Sofia Ardinger, a bartender at the Triple Crown Lounge, told police she saw Coon and Flynn arguing at the bar.

When the bar became busy, Ardinger said she asked customer Steve McNeil to watch the couple.

McNeil told police he saw Coon punch Flynn in the lower jaw with a closed fist, causing her knees to buckle at around 12:15 a.m. Saturday morning.

Ardinger called the couple a cab and asked them to leave. Ardinger said she heard Flynn say ”he hit me,” numerous times.

Flynn’s mother, Eva Murphy, told police her daughter and Coon arrived at her residence at about 2 a.m.

She told police that Coon was accusing Flynn of purchasing drugs and refusing to share them with him.

Murphy said she threatened to call the police after Coon told her he was going to kill Flynn.

Coon then threatened to kill her too, Murphy said.

The couple then left the residence and apparently split up.

Cab driver Dennis Anderson told police he picked up Flynn on Thurston Street at about 3:30 a.m. and took her to Coon’s home. She asked Anderson to wait while she went into the home to get money for the fare. Anderson said he saw Coon come to the front porch.

At around 5 a.m., Coon’s sister in California, Jerrie Reese, had her first conversation with Coon. She said her brother told her he was suicidal.

Coon told Reese, Flynn was dead and that she had ”smothered to death” and he had attempted CPR, Reese said.

Also that morning, Coon contacted his former roommate, Maggie Gee, according to police reports. Gee told police she went to Coon’s home after he paged her twice and told her on the phone that he was considering suicide. Coon told Gee that he and Flynn had argued at the Triple Crown because Flynn had stolen some of his methamphetamine, and that he would be arrested for fighting with Flynn, Gee told police.

Gee said she was afraid Coon was going to hurt himself, and she drove to his home at around 5:30 a.m.

Gee said when she started to enter his home, Coon grabbed her by the arms, spun her around, and repeatedly said, ”don’t look.” Gee told police she was frightened because Coon ”didn’t look right” and was squeezing her arms tightly.

Coon said Flynn was in the bedroom dead and had been so for several hours, Gee told police. He said Flynn had died accidentally and that he tried to revive her by pounding on her back and giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

He then asked Gee to help him dispose of Flynn’s body, Gee said. She refused and urged Coon to call authorities, but he refused because he was afraid of going to jail, she said.

Gee then drove Coon to the bank to withdraw some cash and then to a 7-11, before taking him back to his home, she said. As they approached the residence, they saw several police cars.

Gee told police she was afraid to drop Coon off, so she drove him to the Safeway on Franklin. She said Coon gave her a note authorizing her to pick up his paycheck and said he was going to leave town. Coon asked Gee to wire him the money or place it in a jail account if he was arrested, she said.

Police were sent to the home after Reese called Deschutes County 911 and said her brother had threatened suicide to her over the phone.

When police arrived, from outside, they saw the lower half of a body resting on a bed in the home. Police received a key from the rental home’s property manager to provide medical assistance.

Officers found only one person present in the home. It was Flynn, lying on her back, dead.

Later that night, Portland Police arrested Coon in Portland after he arrived in the city by bus at 7:30 p.m.

Portland detectives noted that Coon had scratches that appeared to be caused by fingernails on his right hand, left forearm, left side of his abdomen and bruises on his right biceps and lower left back.

Prior to the murder charge, Coon was charged with fourth-degree assault for beating Flynn on Jan. 1. Coon was also ordered to stay away from Flynn. The case remains open.