Two Roswell police officers escaped serious injury overnight when a suspect in a domestic dispute struck them with his vehicle.
Roswell police Lt. James McGee said that just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, officers were dispatched to an apartment complex on Preakness Drive after a juvenile told police dispatchers that his mother's boyfriend would not leave the residence.
The boyfriend had left by the time officers arrived, but while they were there, he returned and parked his late-model Saab in front of the apartment.
"The officers approached the vehicle, as the driver matched the description of the boyfriend they had received earlier," McGee said. "The driver was instructed to turn off his vehicle."
The suspect complied, but a short time later, he started the car and drove forward, "striking one of the officers, putting him on the hood of the vehicle," McGee said. "The driver then put the vehicle in reverse, striking the second officer by running over his foot."
The suspect, identified as Keon Ryan Patterson, fled the complex, but was stopped by police and arrested a short distance away at a Waffle House on Holcomb Bridge Road.
Patterson, 32, of Hixson, Tenn., was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, possession of a firearm, obstruction, fleeing and driving with a suspended license.
The two officers were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
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