Burnsville Man Charged with Assaulting Eagan Woman

A Burnsville man has been charged with assaulting an Eagan woman for whom he formerly worked as a personal care attendant.

Nur Abdikarim Yusef, 30, is charged with felony third-degree assault, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He is also charged with interfering with an emergency call, a gross misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $3,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, police went to the victim’s Eagan home on July 29 after a 911 call line was left open and dispatchers could hear yelling and screaming.

Officers met with the victim and her two children, 12 and 14, and described the victim has “very distraught and crying.”

The victim said she was in the shower when her sons told her someone was at the door. When she went to the door, she found Yusef, whom she said used to work as her personal care attendant.

The victim told police that when Yusef worked for her, he asked her for sex several times, but she always rebuffed his advances and had never had a romantic relationship with him.

The victim said she let Yusef into her home last week, and he asked her why she wouldn’t have sex with him. The woman said she became upset that he would ask her that question in front of her children, and the two began to argue.

Yusef stood up from the couch, grabbed the victim by her face and pushed her against the wall, the complaint says. The victim told Yusef she was going to call 911, took out her cell phone and dialed, at which point Yusef knocked the phone out of her hand and struck her in the breast with his forearm, according to the complaint.

Police found marks on the victim’s neck and bruising and swelling on her cheek.

While police were interviewing the victim, she got a phone call from Burnsville police, who told her that Yusef was at the police station reporting that the victim was harassing him and that she would likely file a false police report against him.

When paramedics arrived to examine the victim, they found something unusual about her jaw alignment, according to the complaint. As she was walking out of her house to go to the hospital, she collapsed and fell to the ground, unconscious and shaking, unable to move her legs.

The victim was taken to the hospital, where she was discovered to have bleeding between her brain and her skull. She was hospitalized for several days, according to the complaint.

Yusef is free on bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled for Oct. 31 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.