JENNINGS, Mo. — A man is facing charges after police said he drove an ATV into a block party crowd and ran over a 5-year-old girl's leg on the Fourth of July.
Taylor Bloate, 36, was charged with second-degree assault, resisting arrest by fleeing and fleeing the scene of an accident.
According to charging documents, Bloate drove a four-wheeler through a roadblock and into a crowd of people on McLaran Avenue last Thursday. Charging documents said he ran over the leg of a 5-year-old girl before fleeing the scene in a car.
When police eventually spotted him driving the car and tried to pull him over, he sped off. Police said he ran a red light and T-boned another car in the intersection.
He was taken into custody after the crash.