Two teenagers were arrested in a robbery and a separate vehicular assault involving a pregnant 19-yearold passenger who feared she was put into labor early Thursday night.
The events started in downtown Little Rock about 6:26 p.m., police said, when Melissa Springer, 31, was driving north on Main Street and an unfamiliar white car swerved to a stop in front of her at 17th Street.
Springer told police that a seemingly intoxicated man stepped out of the passenger side of the car and started asking her for directions. Then the man reached into her car and tried to grab her purse. When she resisted, police reports said, the assailant pulled a gun and put it to her cheek.
“Don’t fight,” the man told her.
Springer pushed the assailant away after he took her purse, according to the reports. With the small chrome revolver still in hand, the man hopped back in the white two-door Oldsmobile, which sped off east on 17th Street.
Springer wrote down the license plate as the car fled, reports said.
Half an hour later, sheriff ’s deputies in Pulaski County went to College Station after two cars collided along East 35th Street.
They found two cars in the woods, according to reports, with the passengers of a red Dodge Avenger still at the scene and no sign of the occupants of a crashed Oldsmobile.
Alexis Williams, 19, told police she was riding in the Avenger when the driver of the white car, whom she recognized as the father of one of her relative’s children, Kieran Adams, signaled for them to pull over.
The Avenger’s driver, Candace Gibson, did not pull over. Instead, they told police, they tried to lose Adams, who was tailgating them.
The Oldsmobile started “to swerve side to side very quickly” and then struck Gibson’s vehicle, sending both into the woods, according to the reports.
After the crash, Adams and his two passengers fled from the car.
When speaking with deputies at the scene, Williams said she was “thrown into labor,” and she was then taken to UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock for treatment and evaluation.
Law enforcement officials said they didn’t know Williams’ medical status.
Deputies were met by Little Rock officers and noted the similarities between the crash and the Main Street robbery earlier that night. Eventually, officers trackeddown Adams, 19, and another teenager at local hospitals.
Adams was also at UAMS Medical Center. After his treatment, he met with officers and told them he fled from the crash because he was scared and “does not like the police much.”
Adams’ passenger, identified as Zayzhon Thompson, 17, was arrested and charged as an adult with aggravated robbery and theft of property.
He remained at the Pulaski County jail Friday. No bond for his release had been set.
Adams lives at the same Frazier Pike address as Thompson and was charged with aggravated assault in the College Station crash. He also was charged with aggravated robbery and theft of property in Little Rock.
Although sheriff’s deputies’ reports reference a third passenger, there is no record of a third arrest.
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 17 on 09/22/2013