A Minneapolis man admitted to repeatedly striking a police officer who was attempting to resolve an order for protection violation in St. Paul, sending the officer to the hospital with a head wound in March.
On Tuesday, Coni Lamark Shegog, 28, pleaded guilty to three counts of fourth-degree assault against a peace officer in Ramsey County District Court for his conduct, according to court records.
He had previously faced six counts of the charge.
The incident began as a routine police call for St. Paul officer Dominic Dzik, who was called to an apartment building on Cook Avenue near Westminster Street about 1:30 p.m. March 7.
A woman at the scene reported that earlier in the day, a neighbor — who is Shegog’s girlfriend — had violated an order for protection the woman had filed after recently being threatened with a knife.
As Dzik talked to the woman in the parking lot, a vehicle pulled in and the woman’s neighbor was in the passenger seat.
When Dzik went to talk to the people in the car, the driver, Shegog, began yelling at the officer, telling him to move his “(expletive) squad,” before exiting the vehicle.
Things quickly escalated between the two, prompting Dzik to eventually spray chemical irritant at Shegog as he attempted to place him under arrest.
That’s when Shegog started swinging, repeatedly striking Dzik on the top of his head with his fists and a set of keys.
He also spit in another officer’s face.
Dzik, who had difficulty seeing due to the amount of blood seeping from his head, was taken to Regions Hospital, where doctors had to staple his head wound shut.
Shegog will be sentenced in July.
His attorney, Jeremy Plesha, declined to comment on his case Tuesday.