Police beat: Boyfriend charged in central Arkansas abduction; woman accused of leaving kid in hot home

Boyfriend charged in Cabot abduction

A Cabot man was arrested on a kidnapping charge Saturday morning after his girlfriend said he forced her into a vehicle, authorities said.

Pulaski County sheriff's deputies responded to Centennial Road in Cabot about 11 a.m. A witness told authorities Christopher Michael Edgar, 22, had physically forced his girlfriend into his vehicle and fled, according to an arrest report.

When deputies located the vehicle, the victim said Edgar had locked her in a room and refused to release her, then grabbed her by the hair and forced her into his vehicle, taking her phone.

Edgar is charged with aggravated assault on a family or household member, kidnapping and second-degree false imprisonment. He was being held without bail at the Pulaski County jail Saturday evening.

Report says boy kept in hot house

A North Little Rock woman accused of keeping her child in a 100-degree home with no running water was arrested Friday, police said.

A relative of Prestance Earlandra Braggs, 28, asked police for a welfare check on Braggs' 10-year-old son, whom she believed to be in unsafe conditions at a residence in the 800 block of West 23rd Street, according to an arrest report.

When officers arrived, Braggs avoided questions and said the boy was at her cousin's house before admitting he was inside her home, the report states. The home had no utilities and was unfit to live in, authorities said.

Police found the boy, who said he was hot and the home had no water. He said he had to use the bathroom in a bag that was sitting in the toilet, according to the report. The temperature was more than 100 degrees inside the house, and the boy was locked inside, officers said.

The boy was taken to his grandmother, the report said.

Braggs was arrested about 5:15 p.m. Friday on a charge of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. She had been released from the Pulaski County jail as of Saturday evening and is to appear in court Tuesday, records show.

LR shooting sends victim to hospital

A 39-year-old North Little Rock man suffered serious injuries in a shooting Thursday night in Little Rock, police said.

The Little Rock Police Department said in a report that Morris Combee was shot in the chest and pelvic area about 10:10 p.m. in the 4400 block of west 27th Street.

Combee's injuries were considered possibly life-threatening, authorities wrote. No update on his condition was available Saturday.

According to the report, a witness heard gunfire and then saw Combee running east on 27th Street before collapsing in a yard.

The shooter was described as a shirtless, light-skinned black man who wore glasses and khaki pants. He was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds, according to the report.

No information on a possible motive was listed, though the report noted that a stolen Ford sport utility vehicle observed at the scene was believed to be tied to the shooting.

Man hit as bullets fly at LR complex

Gunfire at a Little Rock apartment complex Thursday injured one man and also went through a child's bedroom window, authorities said.

Officers were sent at 10:40 p.m. to Fair Oaks Apartments on 9600 W. 36th St. in response to a call about gunfire, according to a report from the Police Department. Callers had reported several gunmen behind one of the units.

Eric Harris, 20, was in the parking lot when he was shot in the right shin, police wrote. He went to UAMS Medical Center to be treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

Police added that bullets were fired at two apartment complexes. One bullet passed through the bedroom window of a 5-year-old child, who was inside the room at the time. A second child, whose age was not listed, was also in the house. Neither child was injured.

The other bullet hit a neighboring apartment and stopped between the window and the window screen, the resident told police.

Two women also reported that their vehicles, a 2006 Lincoln Zephyr and a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, had been shot.

Pistol fire from car strikes man twice

A 28-year-old man was shot twice while walking Thursday afternoon in southwest Little Rock, authorities said.

Fred Hays was walking at 2 p.m. in the 5100 block of Gum Springs Road when an acquaintance called Hays over to his car, according to a Little Rock Police Department report.

Police wrote that as Hays approached, the passenger fired a pistol, hitting him once in the head and once in the right forearm.

The Little Rock resident walked to the Cedar Ridge Apartments on 5517 W. 51st St., where a 49-year-old woman took him to CHI St. Vincent hospital, officers said.

Assault prompts jump from window

A Little Rock woman jumped out of a bathroom window to escape her boyfriend, who is accused of firing four shots through her living room wall during a dispute, authorities said.

The gunfire happened around midnight Thursday at the woman's home on Flag Road in Little Rock, according to a police report.

The 35-year-old victim told officers her boyfriend forced his way into her home and began yelling and cussing at her. The report said the man shoved her on the ground, hit her in the face with a gun and threatened to kill her before firing the weapon four times through the wall.

The woman told investigators she then went to the bathroom and escaped by jumping out the window. The gunman left the house in an unknown direction, officers said.

The 32-year-old man listed as a suspect had not been arrested at the time of the report.

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