TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Police arrested a Tallahassee woman they said intentionally used her car to repeatedly hit a pedestrian, eventually knocking her to the ground, and then drove away.
Crystal Lynette Davis, 24, was booked into the Leon County Detention Center on Wednesday and released on a $2,500 bond. She faces a charge of aggravated battery with the use of a deadly weapon.
Multiple witnesses said Davis intentionally hit the victim Tuesday in the area of Calhoun Street and East Tennessee Street, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Police saw the victim lying on the ground and receiving treatment from Leon County Emergency Medical Services personnel. At a hospital, the victim later told police she had pain in various parts of her body.
One witness said the incident began when the victim was crossing the street in a crosswalk and the driver, Davis, was yelling at the victim, who threw soft drink on the car and continued to walk across the street.
The victim told the Tallahassee Police Department investigator that, while she was crossing the street in the crosswalk, she saw a car trying to turn in her direction from Calhoun Street. She said she was almost across the intersection when a car started honking at her.
As the driver began yelling at her, the victim said, the victim threw a soft drink at the car and continued crossing the street into the Capital City Bank employees parking lot. She said the car followed her.
One witness said the car followed the victim into the parking lot and hit the victim with its front bumper and the victim threw more soft drink on the car.
The car then backed up and came at the victim again, a witness said, and this time the victim threw the drink cup at the car and hit it in the front end. The car knocked the victim to the ground.
Police tracked down the suspect from information given to them by witnesses, one of whom described the suspect as "a middle aged black female with 'poofy' hair."
Reached at her house by police, Davis waived her right to remain silent. Davis said at the time of the incident the crosswalk had a red do-not-walk signal. Davis said that, as she was turning her car, she saw the victim and they exchanged words.
Davis said when the victim walked up to her car, threw drink on her car and began banging on the window, she became afraid and backed up her car to get away from the victim. Davis said she fled from the area to get away from the victim.
Davis denied hitting the victim and said the victim attacked her first.
