TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - A Tallahassee woman accused of intentionally driving her SUV into a woman she saw with her child's father was arrested on a battery charge.
Jessica Lynette Ammons, 26, arrested Thursday, is accused of using her Nissan Pathfinder as a deadly weapon on June 3, 2017, at the Whataburger at 2511 Apalachee Parkway.
Before the incident, according to a probable cause document filed by a Tallahassee Police Department investigator, the victim said she received a text message from a male friend asking her to come outside and visit with him.
As she left the restaurant to visit the man during her break, she said in an affidavit, she was struck by the SUV hard enough to be thrown to the ground.
Ammons then exited the vehicle, attacked the victim until the man separated the two women, and left the scene.
The victim then ran back into the Whataburger.
She told officers that Ammons was her attacker; a person she does not know by sight but believes to be the man's "baby mama." She stated the man had previously told the victim he has a child with Jessica Ammons.
The reason for the attack, the victim told officers she believes, was that Ammons was jealous of her friendship with the man.
About a half hour after the attack, the man sent the victim text messages apologizing for Ammons' behavior, but he later refused to cooperate in the investigation. Ammons sent the victim Facebook messages asking if she wanted to be attacked again.
On June 20, 2017, Ammons herself told an investigator that she was not involved in a fight and that on the day it occurred she was at home and in bed.
An analysis of phone records "is more consistent with her being in the Apalacheee parkway area during the time of the battery," the investigator wrote.
On June 29, 2017, the victim, who said she received minor injuries as a result of being battered, identified Ammons from a photographic line-up.
As a result of the investigation, Ammons was taken into to custody over the weekend.
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