TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Officers responded to a series of events involving a harmful individual round 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, based on Tampa police.
The primary name was a dispute on the Greenback Normal retailer on Dale Mabry and Interbay Boulevard the place Jeremiah Bailey, 48, used his white Honda and deliberately blocked 47-year-old Eric Archield’s automobile so he couldn’t go away.
Police mentioned Bailey then adopted the person to a close-by neighborhood.
“He didn’t also have a dialog with a man. The man by no means mentioned nothing to him. He simply began following him, trailing him by the neighborhoods and ended up right here,” mentioned Gerald Smith who was on the house when the incident occurred on West Meadow Road.
Authorities mentioned Archield was hit by the suspect’s white Honda.
“The man acquired out the automotive, threw the chair at us. I went in and acquired my gun and got here again out,” Smith mentioned. “He tried to hit me with the automotive, then he hit my buddy with the automotive, so I simply fired off pictures.”
Smith mentioned Bailey then drove off. Archield suffered minor accidents.
“I do know he’s sore — his elbow, most likely a damaged finger or one thing like that,” Smith mentioned.
Simply half-hour earlier than the alleged rampage, Tonylynn McElreath had a terrifying encounter with the suspect.
“I’ll always remember the look on his face once I regarded by the again, once I was nonetheless within the automotive with my youngsters, and he had a glance of rage,” McElreath mentioned. “We pulled onto our avenue and my husband mentioned, ‘Why is that this man on our butts like this,’ after which he simply railed proper into the driveway and blocked us in.”
McElreath mentioned the suspect then sped off.
McElreath has been emotional since listening to the information about what occurred after their encounter.
“I acquired fairly emotional as a result of, you understand, pondering that might have occurred to my husband,” she mentioned. “And by chance, we had been, we had guardian angels on our facet, and it did not occur; however I felt horrible for the those who had been affected.”
