Shedding light on male domestic violence

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'Standing nearly 6 feet tall and weighing about 230 pounds, 23-year-old Willie Wiltz may have been an imposing figure, but his mother said he was a "big boy with a big heart."

But that large frame hid something that ultimately killed him.

Wiltz was a victim of domestic violence, and a few days before Valentine's Day 2011, Wiltz, an athletic young man who enjoyed playing basketball, was gunned down as he attempted to leave his home in San Bernardino during an argument with his girlfriend, Ebony Davis.

"I didn't think it would ever come to this," said Wiltz's mother, Darlene Young of Los Angeles.

She said her son had told her about some of the incidents of abuse, but he always told his mother not to worry and that he could take care of it.

According to the Domestic Violence Research Center, exact numbers of male victims of domestic violence are difficult to obtain because of a lack or reporting, but the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1.5 million women and 835,000 men are victims of domestic violence each year.'