A Kenner man faces an attempted second-degree murder charge after authorities say he spent an evening terrorizing and battering his girlfriend and their 3-month-old son.

Octave Bazanac, 42, was taken into custody after police were called three times to the couple's Kenner apartment complex on Oct. 2, the final time by a neighbor who spotted Bazanac trying to push his 25-year-old girlfriend out of a third-floor window, according to Deputy Chief Mark McCormick.

The women suffered minor injuries. The baby was not hurt, authorities said.

The girlfriend made the first 911 call just after 7 p.m. to report that she'd been attacked earlier in her parking lot by an ex-boyfriend who was armed, McCormick said.

She told authorities the man pushed her, slapped her and hit her baby while she was hol

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