A 37-year-old man who was fired Monday from the Aurora Police Department now faces charges of assault and child abuse in a Westminster domestic violence incident, according to court records.

Philip Lawrence Sullivan was charged in Adams County with eight misdemeanors, including third-degree assault, two counts of knowing and reckless child abuse, harassment, resisting arrest and multiple weapons charges.

Westminster police officers responded to the domestic violence incident involving weapons in the 9000 block of Osceola Street just before 7 p.m. on Nov. 26, according to court documents.

The caller told dispatchers that her husband, Sullivan, had shoved her in the bathroom and thrown items at her, according to the man’s arrest affidavit. While inside a barricaded bedroom, she told

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