Connecticut youth basketball coach accused of vehicular assault after argument about game

A girl’s youth basketball coach in Connecticut is accused of vehicular assault after video captured him plowing into someone and driving off after an argument about a weekend game, authorities said Monday.

The hit, which sent the apparent victim tumbling over the vehicle's hood, happened Saturday at Horace W. Porter School, east of Hartford, Connecticut State Police said in a news release.

The coach, Bryan Baez-Rivera, 29, also faces charges of breach of peace, risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment, state police said.

Baez-Rivera could not be reached for comment Monday. The youth basketball team that he appears to be associated with did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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