North Little Rock police arrested a woman on Tuesday who purportedly tried to run over two people during a confrontation in March.
Officers responded March 14 to 5 Power Line Drive north of Lynch Drive. Beverly Couch, 54, and her son, Corey Green, 21, told officers that Whitney Lewis had tried to run over them with her Ford Expedition, according to a police incident report.
Lewis, 27, and Couch had been in an argument over children fighting in the neighborhood, and Lewis said she was going to get a gun, according to the report. Lewis purportedly went inside her home and came back with her hand wrapped in a towel, then started threatening people. No firearm was visible, witnesses told police.
Lewis entered her SUV as the argument continued and attempted to back over Couch, the report says. Green told police that when he began chasing Lewis' vehicle, she shifted into reverse and tried to back over him, too.
An arrest warrant was issued June 19 for Lewis. She was arrested at 10:53 a.m. Tuesday at 7500 Knollwood Drive and charged with aggravated assault.
Lewis, also known as Whitney Williams, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree battery and terroristic threatening in 2012 after attacking a Lynch Drive Elementary School teacher during a parent-teacher-student event and threatening to shoot attendees, according to court records.
During an argument with the teacher, Lewis said, "I will shoot kids, I will fight kids, I will fight parents," police reported. She then said she was going to retrieve a gun from her car, prompting the school principal to "move all the children along the walls" and tell them to "get down in preparation for a possible school shooting," according to police.
The incident ended in a fistfight between Lewis and the teacher, and Lewis fled the scene.
She received four years of probation and was fined $1,500.
Lewis also underwent a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation that found she had antisocial personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. With regard to the former condition, she exhibited a "pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, as evidenced by her multiple arrests, deceitfulness, impulsivity, repeated physical fights, and irresponsibility," the evaluation says.
As a teenager, Lewis threatened to blow up her school and attempted to burn down her mother's barn, court records show. She has received numerous psychiatric evaluations and treatments since the age of 14.
Lewis, a mother of five children who never completed high school, was being held in lieu of $25,000 bond at the Pulaski County jail late Wednesday.
Metro on 08/28/2014