A 34-year-old man is charged after prosecutors say a domestic assault escalated into an attempt to strike a woman with his vehicle while their young child was inside.
The incident happened around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, near a Speedway gas station along West River Road in Brooklyn Center.
Pierre Pearson Joplin, of Brooklyn Center, is charged with felony threats of violence and felony domestic assault. According to the criminal complaint, officers were dispatched after a woman reported that Joplin, identified as the father of her child, had attacked her and fled in a white Hyundai Tucson…