Adam Michael Garber, 34, Minot, is accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend, pointing a handgun at one of her children and discharging a firearm in a trailer in Minot on Sunday.

Garber is charged in district court in Minot with terrorizing and reckless endangerment, both Class C felonies, and simple assault – domestic violence, a Class B misdemeanor.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Garber grabbed his ex-girlfriend around the neck and pinned her against the wall while squeezing her neck during a domestic altercation. He also allegedly threw a lighter at her and hit her in the abdomen. Minutes later, when the woman’s children entered her residence, Garber pointed a gun at one of them, shouted that he was not going to jail and discharged the gun into a wall. A bullet traveled through the wall of the trailer and entered a wall of a neighboring trailer, which was occupied at the time.

Garber was scheduled to make an initial appearance in district court in Minot on Monday.