Rescue Claim: The husband of the missing Bahamas woman has gone public with body-cam footage, insisting he almost fell too yet kept trying to save her

At the time, Brian Hooker said his wife believed a person named Jacob Hooker and another person, whose name was redacted from the report, were locked in an upstairs room and “fooling around.” It was not immediately clear who Jacob Hooker is and how is he related to the couple.

Police stated they tried to contact Jacob Hooker and the other person after the event, but the pair had already left the home. When police tried calling both of them, neither answered, the report said.

NBC News was unable to reach Jacob Hooker despite multiple attempts Thursday.

Brian Hooker said that his wife tried to open the door of the locked room and that he went upstairs to calm her down, which was when she hit him in the face “4 to 5 times,” according to the police report.

“He stated he had never been hit like that in a long time. He started to cry and became emotional,” the report said.

Police wrote in the report that officers contacted a witness who said she heard Lynette Hooker upstairs “causing a commotion.” She said she saw Brian Hooker go upstairs and return several minutes later with a bloody nose.

The witness declined Thursday to comment on the 2015 incident, including how she knows the couple.

The report says that Lynette Hooker was “highly intoxicated” on the night of the incident.

When police brought her downstairs to ask her what had happened, she said Brian Hooker had hit her in the forehead. She said that her children had locked themselves in a room upstairs and that she was trying to get in, which is when she said her husband choked her and punched her one time, the report stated.

According to the police report, officers saw Brian Hooker’s red, swollen and bloody nose, but said Lynette Hooker had no visible injuries.

Mark Hunting, an attorney for the couple at the time, told NBC News on Thursday that attorney-client privilege applies to this case and that he was not at liberty to opine about it.

According to Aylesworth, the couple had “a history of not getting along, especially when they drink.” It was not immediately clear whether the couple had been drinking on the Saturday night boat trip.

Aylesworth noted that both were experienced on the water and had been sailing for more than a decade, starting with a small two-person sailboat and moving to a larger vessel they bought in Texas.

Aylesworth told NBC News that her mother was unlikely to “just fall” overboard, noting that she briefly spoke with her stepfather after the incident, who sounded “monotone and relaxed.” She added that Brian Hooker provided the same account he gave to the police.

Brian Hooker wrote Wednesday morning on Facebook that he is “heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas.”

Later that day, he was arrested in the Bahamas. His lawyer, Terrel A. Butler, said Brian Hooker denied any wrongdoing and rejected the claims made by Aylesworth.

“He has been cooperating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation,” Butler’s statement added.