'Home Alone' actor's Oklahoma assault trial called off after he was hospitalized

The domestic assault trial for "Home Alone" actor Devin Ratray has been called off because the judge was told Ratray was being hospitalized "in critical condition" in New York.

Ratray, now 47, played Buzz McAllister in the classic 1990 Christmas movie and its 1992 sequel. He lives in New York.

Jury selection in his felony case had been scheduled to begin Monday in Oklahoma County District Court.

District Judge Kathryn Savage signed an order last week giving the hospitalization as the reason the trial setting was stricken. The case was reset on the Feb. 21 pretrial conference docket "for further negotiation."

Ratray was hospitalized for heart issues, his defense attorney, Scott Adams, told The Oklahoman. His family on Friday reported he was in an intensive care unit, the attorney said.

TMZ reported Monday a family member said he has been released and is resting at home.

Ratray was charged in 2021 with a felony count of domestic assault and battery by strangulation and a misdemeanor count of domestic assault and battery.

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He is accused in the first count of strangling his then-girlfriend on the bed in their hotel room in Bricktown in Oklahoma City early Dec. 9, 2021. He is accused in the second count of punching her in the face when she bit his hand.

"While strangling the victim, defendant stated the following: 'This is how you die,'" an Oklahoma City police detective reported in a court affidavit.

Ratray was in Oklahoma City for the "Oklahoma Pop Christmas Con," according to the affidavit. He became angry with his girlfriend after she gave away "autograph cards" to two women at a bar for free.

Ratray had consumed a bottle of wine and several shots of alcohol at Mickey Mantle's Steakhouse, according to the affidavit. He then had 10 shots of alcohol at the Coyote Ugly Saloon.

He denies strangling or striking the woman, his defense attorney said Monday.

At a preliminary hearing in 2022, the former girlfriend testified she thought she was going to die in the hotel room.

She said Ratray had agreed to do the event in Oklahoma City because he was being evicted from his apartment in New York and needed money.

"Devin ... doesn't want to be known for something he did 30 years ago," she testified, according to a transcript. "It was (a) point of contention for him his whole life.

"And it's something that I dealt with a lot when we were dating and that's why he'd never done these cons before because he didn't want to promote that he was in 'Home Alone.'

"He was annoyed to be there and be seen as 'Buzz' anyway," she said.

During the 2022 hearing, the defense attorney contended that she was the one who had been mad because Ratray was flirting with the two fans at the Coyote Ugly Saloon.

The attorney also said she didn't tell the first police officer there was any strangulation.

In a strange coincidence, Macaulay Culkin, the star of the "Home Alone" movies, also has faced a criminal case in Oklahoma County District Court.

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Culkin was charged with misdemeanor drug offenses in 2004 after Oklahoma City police found marijuana and Xanax during a traffic stop. He pleaded guilty in 2005 and was put on probation for a year.

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