Jul. 7—ROCHESTER — A Rochester woman is accused of hitting a man with her vehicle in a parking lot and proceeding to ram into a police car, according to new charges filed in Olmsted County District Court.
Hafsa Mohamed, 22, was charged with counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, assault that inflicted substantial bodily harm and damage to property, all felonies. She also faces misdemeanor counts of DWI and disorderly conduct.
Mohamed’s first appearance is scheduled for Monday, July 7.
According to the criminal complaint, Rochester police officers were dispatched around 5 a.m. on July 3 to the north parking lot of River View Suites at 211 First Street Northeast. A man was reportedly hit by a car.
Officers arrived and saw a group of people in the parking lot near a person who was lying motionless on the ground. The group indicated that the red Nissan Altima in the parking lot was the suspected vehicle.
One officer parked their squad car in front of the parking lot’s exit, the complaint said. The suspected vehicle proceeded to ram into the squad car several times.
Rochester police blocked in the vehicle and ordered the driver out of the car. The driver was identified as Mohamed.
According to the complaint, a woman at the scene told officers that she and Mohamed had an unresolved conflict between the two of them. The woman and her boyfriend were walking through the parking lot when she saw Mohamed’s vehicle. Mohamed attempted to start a fight in the parking lot with the woman, but the woman refused to engage, the complaint alleges.
“Mohamed got into her red Nissan, backed out of her parking stall, accelerated forward and drove into (the woman’s boyfriend), striking him in the thigh and knocking him to the ground,” the criminal complaint said.
The man was treated for a broken femur and additional external injuries, the complaint said.
Mohamed later told police she got into a fight with the woman, and they began pushing each other. The woman’s boyfriend was “somehow” pushed to the ground, Mohamed told police. The complaint said Mohamed denied running over the boyfriend with her vehicle and claimed to have hit the police car because she wasn’t wearing her glasses.
Officers saw that her eyes were bloodshot and watery. A preliminary breath test revealed her breath alcohol concentration to be 0.146 grams of alcohol.