COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - An officer was taken to the hospital early Sunday morning after an assault in the Northgate Bar District.

At around 1:30 a.m., an officer was responding to a call for assistance in catching a suspect who was actively fleeing in the Promenade parking lot. As the officer was running towards the scene, 23-year-old Apolo Flores stopped walking and took a football-style athletic stance.

Flores then used his shoulder to push the officer down, causing the officer to hit the ground. Flores then took a similar stance towards an uninvolved elderly man, causing the man to fall.

Both the officer and elderly man sustained injuries. The elderly man had his injuries treated on scene. The officer was then taken to the hospital for his severely injured wrist.

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