A Baton Rouge man was arrested Sunday after allegedly running over his girlfriend as she fled from him during a domestic dispute, then keeping her from seeking help from onlookers.

Christian Coleman, 35, was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of attempted second-degree murder and domestic abuse battery. Coleman has a history of domestic battery arrests, one which includes alleged strangulation. Several of those arrests are from earlier this year, and Coleman still had an active warrant out for another.

On Sunday afternoon, Coleman arrived at a residence in the 5000 block of Cheryl Road to confront his live-in girlfriend about an ongoing dispute, according to an arrest affidavit. The girlfriend attempted to flee, at which point Coleman began striking her in the face

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