2 held in assault with baseball bat
Little Rock police arrested two men Monday in a baseball-bat attack earlier this month.
Michael Tappin, 20, and Jeryan "Junebug" Brown, 23, were each charged with first-degree battery. Tappin and Brown are accused of following Tappin's girlfriend to her father's house in the 3700 block of West 11th Street and beating the father Feb. 12.
Andre Munson, 54, said the two struck him in the face with a baseball bat, which knocked out five of his teeth, according to a court affidavit. He received treatment at UAMS Medical Center, where doctors told him he needed surgery to remove several other teeth because of his injuries.
Tappin had been fighting with Munson's 25-year-old daughter before the attack, the affidavit states. He followed her to her father's home with Brown and several unidentified women. The women attacked Munson's daughter, and when Munson intervened, Tappin and Brown struck him with a bat, according to the affidavit.
Police arrested Tappin and Brown, both of North Little Rock, on warrants Monday afternoon. They were each being held in lieu of $50,000 bond at the Pulaski County jail late Tuesday.
3 grab up clothes in store, pull gun
Police were investigating the armed robbery of a Little Rock clothing and apparel store Monday.
Officers responded at 12:07 p.m. to City Gear at 9100 W. Markham St., where employees said three black men had entered the store and began taking clothes. An employee confronted the men when they walked toward the door, and one of them pulled out a gun, according to a police report.
The robbers were last seen fleeing east from the store. Police searched the area but made no arrests.
One of the men was described as 5-foot-5-inches tall, weighing 160 pounds and wearing a tan jacket and dark bluejeans. Descriptions of the other men were unavailable.
No injuries were reported in the heist.
Shoplifter shoves worker, races off
A man stole a sweatshirt from a west Little Rock Kmart on Monday afternoon, pushing a store employee as he fled the store with the clothing, police said.
A loss-prevention officer at the Kmart at 10901 N. Rodney Parham Road told police that a man entered the store about 12:30 p.m. Monday, selected a sweatshirt valued at $32 and attempted to leave the store without paying for it, police reported.
When the loss-prevention officer confronted the man, the man took off the sweatshirt, pushed the employee and fled the store, taking the sweatshirt with him, police reported. The man was seen leaving in a white GMC Yukon traveling east on Rodney Parham Road.
The robber is described as black, 5-feet-9-inches tall, weighing 180 pounds and in his early 20s. He was wearing a black-and-red shirt and red pants.
Metro on 02/25/2015