2015-01-14
Argument leads to car chase and arrests
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Jim McBride
Jan 14, 2015
Amarillo police arrested two people on robbery and stolen auto charges after a car chase led to a wreck Tuesday on the north Interstate 27 frontage road near South Western Street.
DPS Trooper Chris Ray said authorities arrested Stephanie Denise Aycock, 23, of Amarillo, the driver of a stolen Chrysler 300. She and passenger David Wayne Kimball, 31, of Amarillo, were booked into Randall County jail.
About 4:30 p.m., an unmarked Amarillo Police Department unit followed the Chrysler. A trooper in a marked DPS vehicle then tried to pull over the Chrysler, but Aycock refused to stop while traveling north on Western Street and turned left onto the north I-27 frontage road. She was speeding, Ray said, which caused her to lose control and hit a black GMC Sierra pickup parked at Jimmy Fincher Body Shop, 5827 Canyon Drive.
About 1 p.m. Tuesday, Amarillo police were dispatched to the 400 block of South Prospect Street on a robbery that had just occurred, police said Wednesday. Officers talked to a man, 30, who said he was the victim of a carjacking a few minutes earlier.
The victim told police he recently bought a 2005 black Chrysler and was driving it when he was robbed.
The man said he was driving through the San Jacinto neighborhood when he noticed a woman tailing him. The victim was driving down a residential street when the woman, driving a Ford Escape, cut him off, forcing him to stop.
The woman left the Escape, approached the man and told him the Chrysler had been stolen from her. She raised her shirt slightly and showed the man a pistol butt in her waistband. As the pair argued, a third man in a gray extended-cab pickup pulled up and claimed the Chrysler was his.
The trio argued for a while before the pickup driver told the woman to drive the Chrysler to another location. The man who had been driving the Chrysler was told to get in the passenger side of the Chrysler, which he did. The woman then drove away in the Chrysler as the pickup followed. An unknown person then climbed into the Ford Escape the woman had been driving and followed the pickup and the Chrysler.
The woman then told the carjacking victim as they drove away in the Chrysler that the people in the other vehicles were going to kill her. She then sped up and attempted to elude the other vehicles. The pickup driver forced the Chrysler over at Eighth Avenue and Maryland Street, and the Escape pulled in behind and boxed the Chrysler in.
The pickup driver approached the Chrysler, pulled the woman out of the car and began assaulting her. The pickup driver then told the male victim to get out of the Chrysler and drove off. The occupants of the Escape tried to leave, but their vehicle wouldn’t start and they fled from the Escape, which also had been reported stolen on Jan. 9. The woman driving the Chrysler then took off walking, police said. some time later she returned to the vehicle.
About 4:30 p.m., a DPS trooper observed the stolen Chrysler in the area of 26th Avenue and Paramount Boulevard.
The Chrysler driver, identified as Aycock, sped off and a chase ensued, but she lost control of the Chrysler and wrecked it at the body shop, 5827 Canyon Drive.
Aycock was arrested on charges of evading arrest, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and abandonment or endangering a child, a 12-year-old passenger who was released to his parents, authorities said.
Kimball, 31, was arrested on the robbery charge linked to the San Jacinto carjacking and four local municipal warrants.
Both he and Aycock remained in the Randall County jail on Wednesday.
Police said Wednesday the incident remains under investigation.
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