While living at Hoffman Park, girlfriend apparently beat up by boyfriend

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River Falls police arrested a 36-year-old Oklahoma man living at the Hoffman Park campground for domestic battery and bail jumping Monday night, Aug. 27. The alleged victim was the man’s 34-year-old girlfriend. She was found near the park’s softball field. She was all bloody and had a swollen face and cut lip.

The two live together and camped out this summer at Hoffman. Leading up to the incident, they allegedly argued about his drinking, then he took a nap.

When she woke him later to go to work, he got mad. She walked out, taking her bags.

The woman says she got as far as the park’s storm detention basin when her boyfriend ran up from behind, shoving and punching her, and also pulling her hair. She was knocked down and he went off.

She resumed walked away and he allegedly again came up quickly from behind and repeated the attack.

She screamed for help. People in the park came to assist. The boyfriend took off again.

The woman was later taken away by ambulance to the hospital emergency room.

The man, picked up while still at Hoffman Park, was taken to county jail in Hudson. He was already out on bond for a previous domestic battery arrest.

On Tuesday, Aug. 28, just before 2 a.m., police arrested a 25-year-old New Richmond man for drunk driving-2nd offense and battery at the Holiday station, 302 S. Main St.

The man allegedly was speeding through the parking lot and had backed up his car against two women. He also allegedly had a fight with one of the women, knocking her down after calling her a dyke for kissing her girlfriend in the parking lot.

A Holiday employee tried to intervene, but he was pushed away and yelled at by the man. A bystander called 911.

The woman who was knocked to the pavement is from River Falls. She needed medical attention.

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