A 22-year-old Arkansan is the third person arrested in an attack on a black man that was recorded on video at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August, The Washington Post reported.
Jacob Goodwin of Ward was arrested Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals Service on a warrant from Virginia, a spokesman for the Lonoke County sheriff's office told Arkansas Online. As of Wednesday afternoon, he was being held at the county jail.
According to the sheriff's office, Goodwin has an extradition hearing set for Friday.
Goodwin was identified as one of at least five men who can be seen in online video footage pummeling DeAndre Harris, a 20-year-old former special education instruction assistant, inside a parking garage after the Aug. 12 rally, the Post reported.
The footage reportedly shows a man identified as Goodwin, clad in a tactical military helmet and carrying a large plastic shield, kicking Harris on the ground. At one point, Goodwin appears to hit Harris with his shield, according to the newspaper.
Lonoke County sheriff's office spokesman Matt Edwards told the Post that Goodwin was taken into custody near Ward and will be extradited to Virginia.
Lt. Steve Upman, a spokesman for police in Charlottesville, told The Associated Press that Goodwin is charged with malicious wounding in the Aug. 12 beating.
Two other men were also charged in the assault. They are being held in Virginia.
Meanwhile, police said this week that Harris himself has also been charged with an alleged assault during that confrontation.
In an interview with Post before Goodwin's arrest, his mother, Tamera Goodwin, confirmed that her son was in the parking garage during the attack and was the one wearing the military tactical gear and carrying the plastic shield.
"I told him, 'It does look like you kick him,' but he said, 'No, Mom, I didn't,'" she told the Post.
The Virginia rally drew national attention after a counter-protester was killed when a car driven by an alleged Nazi sympathizer plowed into a crowd.
Read Thursday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.