King County prosecutors have charged a Kent woman with felony assault, accusing her of grabbing the neck of a sixth-grade player on a Catholic girls basketball team and strangling her nearly unconscious during a game in December, stopping only when the girl’s mother knocked her to the floor.

Monique Altheimer, 38, is charged with second-degree assault by strangulation for allegedly running onto the court, attacking an 11-year-old, and squeezing her neck so hard that the girl reported “everything going dark”