Man suspected of trying to rob west Little Rock bank with fire extinguisher stabbed mother months earlier

Kortvion Hall, 19, of Little Rock
Kortvion Hall, 19, of Little Rock

Kortevion Hall, the man accused of trying to rob a Little Rock bank with a fire extinguisher on Monday, has been on probation for about a week for stabbing his mother in May, court records show.

Hall pleaded guilty to first-degree battery on Sept. 11, the day before his 19th birthday, in Saline County Circuit Court for the May 6 attack on 41-year-old Cosonya Dishman at the family home at 14007 Krestview Drive in Mabelvale.

Dishman suffered a large cut over her left eye and had stab wounds in her right arm, neck and stomach, court filings show.

Dishman told Saline County deputies that she'd returned home between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. that day and had gotten into an argument with her son, according to an arrest report.

She said she'd turned around to go to her room when Hall grabbed her by the arm and started stabbing her. Dishman yelled for him to stop, and Hall fled while she and her husband left to go to the hospital in Little Rock, the report states.

Dishman said she went to her mother's home first, picked up her daughter and mother, then had her daughter, Destinie Hall, 20, drive them all to the CHI St. Vincent Infirmary emergency room.

Deputies later arrived at the family home to find Hall in his bedroom, where he was arrested. In a subsequent interview, Hall told investigators that his parents had been in an argument and that his father, 45-year-old Carlos Cortez Hall, had stabbed Dishman.

Confronted by his parents' accusation that he had stabbed his mother, Kortevion Hall stuck to his version of events, the report said.

Investigators gave him a few minutes alone to think about his situation, and when they returned to question Hall, he told them "he was tired of getting in trouble."

The interrogating officer, who is not named in the report, wrote: "I told him he didn't have to get in trouble, to which he responded that, yes, he did. At that point I stopped the interview and walked him down the hall to the jail."

Dishman's injuries were severe enough that prosecutors considered charging Hall with attempted murder, court filings show. Hall pleaded guilty to first-degree battery in exchange for a sentence of 10 years on probation.

On Tuesday, Little Rock District Judge Hugh Finkelstein set bail for Hall at $200,000 on eight felony charges -- aggravated robbery, robbery, theft, two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and three counts of terroristic threatening -- along with misdemeanor charges of tampering with evidence, criminal mischief and obstructing governmental operations.

Hall was arrested about 11 a.m. on Monday at the Walmart at 2700 South Shackleford Road by police, who had been called to the scene for a purse-snatching report.

As officers pulled into the parking lot, store workers directed them toward a man nearby, according to the report by Little Rock officer Ryan Stubenrauch.

Stubenrauch reported that the man had wads of cash in both hands. But when the man saw police approaching, he started trying to eat the money.

The suspect obeyed police commands to lie facedown on the ground while he was handcuffed, but then spit on Stubenrauch, the report states.

The suspect became uncooperative and refused to walk to the patrol car, throwing himself against the vehicle and denting the passenger-side rear door, according to the report. He refused to tell police who he was and spit on a second officer, Chandler Taylor.

The report states that he tried to spit on a third officer, Scottie Lackland, but that the officer got out of the way. The suspect also threatened to kill another officer, Sgt. Harold Scratch, the report states.

The purse-snatching victim, Veronica Bratton, told police she had been hit on the head from behind by a man, who then took her purse. The 57-year-old Alexander woman said she chased the man out of the store until he dropped her purse, the report states. Bratton said she went back inside the Walmart to talk to store security officers and saw the suspect in the store again.

Arvest Bank clerks Deanna Dring, 45, and Destoni Holman, 24, at the branch in the Walmart told investigators they were accosted by a man wielding a fire extinguisher, using it to strike a computer and beat on the bank counter while demanding money. The report does not state where the extinguisher had been obtained.

They said the suspect leaped over the counter and scooped money out of the tills before jumping back over the counter and fleeing.

Hall was in the Pulaski County jail Tuesday afternoon. He listed his address as the family's Mabelvale home, but court records show the family was evicted from the residence in June.

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