A local teen was arrested on multiple felony charges Monday night after allegedly threatening three people with a gun during a confrontation between the occupants of two vehicles.
Kira Kamile Yvette Thompson, 19, who lists a Malvern Avenue address, was taken into custody shortly before 9 p.m. and charged with three counts of aggravated assault, punishable by up to six years in prison.
Thompson was later released on $7,500 bond and is set to appear June 30 in Garland County District Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, a local man called Hot Springs police Monday night regarding a vehicle following him, his girlfriend and another friend as they were driving on East Belding and a female passenger in the other car pointing a gun at them.
He told police the other vehicle, a Ford passenger car, was occupied by two men he knew that he had argued with earlier in the day, noting, "they were angry and wanted to fight him." He said the Ford passed them going the other way at first and then turned around and began following them and "driving recklessly in pursuit of their vehicle."
He noted one of the men began yelling at him to pull over and then he saw a black female with short dreadlocks aiming a silver and black pistol toward his vehicle. The man's girlfriend told police she also saw the female aiming a gun at them so they called 911 while trying to evade the other vehicle until officers could get there.
Police stopped the suspect vehicle and made contact with the driver, 21, a male passenger, 18, Thompson, a second female passenger, 20, and an 8-month-old baby. The victim and his girlfriend both reportedly identified Thompson as the one they had seen pointing a gun at them.
A pistol matching the description given was reportedly found "in close proximity to Thompson" in the back seat. When questioned later at the police department, Thompson allegedly admitted she did pull the gun out and "aim it out the window," but claimed she never aimed it at the other vehicle. She said they might have seen her "displaying it."
Local on 05/13/2020