KSU art professor charged with aggravated assault in NE Cobb

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Cobb Police have charged a woman with aggravated assault after being accused of dragging another woman and a juvenile with her vehicle during an incident at a Northeast Cobb home last week.Northeast Cobb car crash, Cops on Donut Shops

According to an arrest warrant, Christen Ericsson-Penfold is facing one felony count of aggravated assault in the incident, which took place last Friday.

A Cobb Sheriff’s Office booking report said Ericsson-Penfold, 43, has a home address in Woodstock, and Kennesaw State University lists her as a part-time art instructor.

The warrant said that around 4:45 p.m. last Friday, Ericsson-Penfold was behind the wheel of a black Chrysler minivan parked near a home on Candlewood Way, with a woman and a juvenile girl standing at the driver’s side rear door, and that the sliding door was open.

The residence is located in a neighborhood off Blackwell Road near Shallowford Road.

Ericsson-Penfold attempted to close the sliding door and then hit the gas pedal, pulling the van forward and dragging the woman and the juvenile, causing them to fall on the ground, according to the warrant.

The warrant said that the woman was holding the juvenile on her hip, and that she suffered abrasions to both knees, her right toe and left elbow, and that the girl also had abrasions her left foot, left ankle, and right elbow.

Police said in the warrant both victims were bleeding, but didn’t indicate if any medical treatment was rendered.

The warrant also didn’t say what might have prompted the incident. The booking report said that Ericsson-Penfold was taken into custody at Cobb Police Precinct 6 off Sandy Plains Road later Friday and she was released on a $11,220 bond two days later.

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