FAYETTEVILLE -- Police arrested Afton Kay Bell in connection with first-degree murder Monday after she reportedly ran over her father with a car during an argument at her residence.
Bell, 35, is being held in the Washington County Detention Center with no bond set.
According to a police report, dispatch received a 911 call of a disturbance at 58 S. Woodsprings Drive at 6:39 p.m. on Monday. A caller reported a woman had run over a man with a white Honda Accord and the man was bleeding from his ears.
Bell and her father, Jimmy Releford, had been physically fighting at the residence, according to the police report. Police said Releford walked into the yard and sat down in a chair near a barbecue grill. Bell and another person got into Bell's car and Releford told the person to get out of the car. After the person got out of the car, police said, Bell accelerated from the roadway, over the curb and into the yard, hitting Releford.
Witnesses said Bell drove the car over Releford and attempted to back up over him but another person at the residence was able to get her to stop, according to the report. According to police, one witness said Bell got out of the car, went around to the side Releford was trapped under, and yelled at him.
Releford was pronounced dead at Washington Regional Medical Center, police said.
NW News on 05/29/2019