Former KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville was arrested at his Oakland home last year in an alleged domestic violence incident in which police say he punched his girlfriend before punching her daughter when she intervened, the Chronicle has learned.
Three days after his arrest on suspicion of domestic battery, his girlfriend applied for a domestic violence restraining order in civil court, alleging that Somerville was abusive to her and had assaulted her daughter.
The daughter also sought a stay-away order against Somerville, writing in a court application that, on the day Somerville was arrested, he “pushed me into the TV, pulled my hair and punched me in the face,” and that he “tried holding me down by putting force on my neck.”…