A University City man has been charged with felony assault for attacking the nephew of his girlfriend in Kirkwood.
Karl Howard, 37, of the 800 block of Leland Ave. in University City, was charged Sept. 19 with felony assault and misdemeanor domestic assault, according to the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He remains jailed on a $250,000 cash-only bond.
The charges stem from a Sept. 16 incident when Howard and his girlfriend got into a verbal altercation at his girlfriend’s residence in Kirkwood. When his girlfriend’s nephew — the victim — tried to intervene, Howard attacked him, according to the probable cause statement filed with the case…