A 44-year-old man who was shot by a Plymouth, Minnesota, police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call last November has pleaded guilty to assault, court records show.
The criminal complaint said the officer, identified by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension as Jacob Coopet, responded on Nov. 25, 2025, to a report from a woman that an individual she believed was her ex-husband, later identified as Atanas Hristev, was knocking or trying to gain access to a window at her apartment.
Court documents said Coopet arrived at the apartment on Quinwood Lane North to see Hristev dressed in all black, walking away from the window and back towards the parking lot. Dash camera video shows him with a “fully extended arm pointing a pistol” at Coopet, the complaint says…