LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock police detectives want the public's help identifying and finding one of two men suspected of kidnapping a woman, carjacking her, and leaving her passed out in a cemetery.
"This was something that was a very violent act and with them out on the street, there's always the potential somebody else could fall victim to it," said Officer Eric Barnes, assistant public information officer with the LRPD.
The details in the police report - made public on Wednesday - makes even hardened officers do a double-take.
The 46-year-old woman said three men jumped into her car at the intersection of N. Van Buren and Kavanaugh Blvd. in the Hillcrest neighborhood. It happened Feb. 22 around 9 p.m.
The victim said one of the men shoved her out of the drivers seat, carjacked her, then scared her into giving up her PIN number before she says she passed out.
"It's one thing whenever we see people robbed," Officer Barnes said. "That's something we may see on a daily basis, but then to steal their car and drive them around the city is very disturbing."
The police report said the victim remembers getting on the interstate, but the details are fuzzy. That's because she may have been intoxicated. She somehow ended up a dozen miles away, just over the city limits in the Forest Hills cemetery.
The woman managed to contact police just after midnight and said she must have blacked out. The responding officer reported the woman smelling like alcohol and said she had left an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. A call to her mother cast further doubt on whether the victim could be credible, but a key piece of evidence emerged later that day to help her story stand up.
"There's a lady that located the vehicle out in southwest Little Rock," Officer Barnes said. "Something stuck out to her in her neighborhood that was not correct and seemed suspicious to her and she called it in."
Another interview by detectives and a credible photo led to a police flyer that prompted a school resource officer to arrest Dariun Coleman, 18, at J.A. Fair High School. He has been locked up since Feb. 28 on kidnapping, car theft, and robbery charges.
But, the victim said three people took her on that frightening ride and now police have a photo of someone they think is one of them.
"We want this guy identified and we want to speak with him about his involvement that night," Barnes said.