Already imprisoned once for felonious assault with a gun, a man on parole is armed when he reportedly assaults his child's mother, dragging her across the floor and firing in the street.

CANTON A wanted man on parole after serving time for felonious assault was armed with a gun when he knocked his child's mother to the ground and dragged her across the floor about 8 a.m. Sunday.

Stark County Jail records show Vincent D. Thomas Jr., 28, of 436 Rice Ave. NE, then fired off a round from his pistol while standing in the 1400 block of Ninth Street NW.

Police said Thomas threatened the woman and other people at her home.

Police arrested him, seizing his semi-automatic pistol.

Thomas was jailed on charges of aggravated burglary, domestic violence, discharge of a firearm on or near a prohibited premises and having weapons under disability. He was also jailed on a warrant charging him with misdemeanor obstructing official business.

Thomas is on parole having been released from prison in 2017 after serving time for felonious assault, carrying a concealed weapon and felony domestic violence, according to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction records.

Stark County court records show he threatened to kill a woman via text and later shot at her. The woman was the same victim in a previous domestic violence case for which he had been convicted. This was not the same victim as in the incident on Sunday.

When police pulled him over in a car in which he was riding, he had a small amount of marijuana in his pocket and he kept reaching down near the floorboard and then put his hands back up in the air, the court records show. When he was out of the car, officers saw a black handgun.

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