The guy I like beats up his ex-girlfriends..?

[G.]

Okay so there's this new guy in school and I'm starting to get close to him. I think if we continue on like this we might even be together soon since I think he likes me.

3 weeks ago he broke up with his girlfriend who he dated for nearly 1 1/2 years. It was him that broke up not the girl. So I started flirting with him once I knew he was single instead of treating him like a guy friend. Now we're always together and I guess you can say that people think we're dating (we're not...not yet anyways).

Anyways today his ex-girlfriends (yes 2 of them) added me on Facebook. I accepted then they both messaged me (in a group conference with the 3 of us).

They both told me to be careful of him and that even though he's a sweetheart he's overprotective.

By overprotective I meant to the point where you're not allowed to go to the mall with your girlfriends unless he comes, and you can't talk to guys, and you have to tell him where you are all the time, and you can't make plans with someone without informing him.

Basically you're treated just like his pet and he only wants you to only him and himself. He's extremely overprotective to the point where I think he's kinda mental.

Also they told me he smokes (not a surprise, a lot of guys smoke here), drinks, and beats up his girlfriends. That's right.

He gets jealous easily. Very easily. He also has anger management problems so he's very violent.
So for example if he sees his girlfriend with another guy he'll take her away and hit her on the face and just literally beats her up.

I've talked to other people about this too (his guy friends) and they all said it's true. In fact, they wanted to tell me but they were afraid that the guy I like would beat THEM up.

I'm so scared I don't know what to do. He's such a nice guy you wouldn't suspect that from him AT ALL. Should I just slowly start to ignore him or maybe he'll beat me up because of that.

Today I tried avoiding him at school. I'm not his girlfriend yet and part of me wants to but another part of me tells me to stay away from him.

What should I do I'm so scared. I don't want to find this other side of him. It's like he has 2 different personalities.

[Windy S]

see what happens and how he acts, and if you notice any odd behavior, then stay away from him.

[761]

I kinda whizzed through this,
So.. did they say he hit them?
If that's the case, nah
DON'T get involved. That wouldn't be a wise choice.