By Ray King
A Pine Bluff man was arrested Thursday after police saw him firing shots from a vehicle he was driving at another vehicle.
Sowoan McKendrick, 23, was taken into custody after police chased the car McKendrick was driving to Hoover Street in the Dollarway area.
Deputy Prosecutor Jay Girard said an officer was sitting at a gas station in West Barraque Street when he saw a green vehicle and a black vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on Barraque Street. The officer got behind the two vehicles and saw a hand come out the window of the black vehicle and fire shots at the green vehicle.
Girard reported that the driver of the green vehicle and a male or female pointed at the black vehicle which turned out to be a Mercedes that the officer ended up stopping in the Dollarway area.
Police reported that McKendrick was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint and a black holster in the area of his waist. A glass smoking pipe was found as was a spent shell casing, but the gun was not found in the vehicle.
Girard said police and sheriff’s deputies searched the route the chase had taken, and Sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Green found the gun in a ditch in the 700 block of North Hutchinson.
Jefferson County District Judge Kim Bridgforth set a $75,000 bond for McKendrick Friday after ruling prosecutors have probable cause to charge him with terrorist act, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, possession of an instrument of crime and driving on a suspended license. The Public Defender’s Office was appointed to represent him.
