FARGO - A Fargo man is charged with beating a woman he encountered on the street into unconsciousness in an attack that was reported on Thursday, Sept. 27.

According to Cass County District Court documents:

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Kurtis D. Harrington is charged with a Class C felony count of aggravated assault.

Harrington did not know the victim and hit her for no apparent reason, according to the court documents.

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About 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27, police officers responded to a report of an assault at the intersection of Fourth Street and First Avenue North, they found an unconscious female.

A witness told officers the woman was standing at the intersection when Harrington, unprovoked, walked up behind her and hit her in the head.

The witness said Harrington then kicked the woman in the face and fled the scene, court records show.

The woman was taken to the hospital for medical care.

Harrington was arrested by Moorhead police and on Monday, Oct. 1, he was in the Clay County Jail awaiting extradition to Cass County.

Harrington pleaded guilty in March 2014 in Cass County District Court to charges of simple assault on a peace officer and terrorizing stemming from an incident in November of 2013.

According to court records in that case, Harrington attacked a man at a party and then tried to hit officers who were called to the disturbance.

In another case, court records state police were called to a downtown Fargo restaurant in February 2013 after a man entered the restaurant and punched a female iemployee in the face and then punched a male employee in the neck.

When officers arrived they found restaurant staff restraining Harrington in the kitchen of the business.

Harrington then kicked and struck an officer, according to the court records, which said business employees told police everything happened very quickly and that none of the workers who were attacked knew Harrington.

In that case Harrington pleaded guilty to simple assault and resisting arrest.