Dad stabbed after teen phones police
Claiming he had been kidnapped at birth, a 19-year-old stabbed his father in the face and neck early Tuesday afternoon.
According to police reports, Chreshod Jenkins called Little Rock officers about 12:30 p.m. and told them he had been kidnapped by his family when he was a baby and “if police is not here in thirty minutes, I will kill everyone in the house.”
Once officers reached Jenkins’ 4424 W. 10th St. home, they found Jenkins’ 47-year-old father, Fernando Jenkins, with several stab wounds and also saw Chreshod Jenkins holding a knife.
Chreshod Jenkins was arrested and charged with first-degree domestic battery. His father was taken to a local hospital, where medical staff said his wounds were not life-threatening.
Chreshod Jenkins remained at the Pulaski County jail early Thursday night, where he was being held in lieu of $40,000 bail.
Woman says robber followed her to job
A Little Rock woman told police that a man robbed her, then followed her to her job Wednesday morning and eventually walked into the business to make a purchase, police reports said.
Valencia Shepherd, 28, was walking to her car parked outside her 5318 Stanley Drive home at about 9 a.m. when a man appeared in the parking lot and pulled a small handgun and pointed it at her face.
Shepherd told police she gave the man $50 and that the suspect fled the lot in a silver Oldsmobile.
Shepherd went to work at a nearby auto parts store, and according to reports, said the suspect “followed her to work then left the area,” report said.
Later that day, the suspect walked into the store and bought something with cash, according to Shepherd, but she said she didn’t think the store’s cameras were working.
Shepherd described her robber as a 5-foot-5, 150-pound black man in his late teens or early 20s and said he wore a white shirt under a black hooded sweatshirt.
Gunman robs men during laptop sale
While trying to buy a laptop computer, a Texarkana man was robbed at gunpoint late Wednesday night.
Torrin Davis, 21, arranged to buy a laptop computer in Little Rock and met the seller, Brian Norfleet, in the 2100 block of South Battery Street about 10:30 p.m.
Davis was looking over the computer when an unknown gunman walked up to the pair and demanded they hand over what they had.
Norfleet handed the suspect the computer, and Davis forked over the $150 he’d brought to buy it.
The suspect is described as a 5-foot-6, 160-pound black man in his 20s.
Arkansas, Pages 18 on 02/28/2014