A woman who was taken to Parkridge East Hospital early Thursday evening is suspected in crossing the street to a convenience store and carjacking a young woman.
According to a police report, at 9 p.m. police were dispatched to the Shell station at 948 Spring Creek Road on a reported carjacking that had just taken place. Dispatch advised officers that a white female had stolen a red Kia Spectra.
When police arrived, witnesses told them that the suspected carjacker, a slim woman with short, spiked hair wearing a pink shirt and blue jeans, jumped in a car at a gas pump and left the parking lot at a high rate of speed going north toward South Terrace.
The report states that the suspect had apparently come from the hospital, as Hamilton County EMS had taken a woman suffering from “some sort of narcotic induced illness” there at about 7 p.m. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputies identified the woman as Crystal Neff. Neff had left the hospital once and then later checked herself out.
The report states that Neff made her way across Spring Creek Road to the Shell station, borrowed a phone from someone and tried to call her mother in Seymour, Tenn. When Neff failed to contact her mother she went to the red Kia. The driver of the car had gone inside the store to pay for her gas, leaving her two daughters, ages, 18 and nine, inside the car.
According to the report, Neff got into the driver’s seat and attempted to start the car. The elder daughter grabbed the keys and struggled with Neff. While the struggle ensued, the nine-year-old child ran into the store and alerted her mother to what was happening. The elder daughter told police that Neff was eventually able to push her out of the passenger’s side door and drove away. The report states that Neff almost fell out of the open driver’s side door as “she careened out of the lot and onto Spring Creek Road.” The elder daughter suffered a scraped knee in the incident.
Surveillance video from the convenience store shows a white female matching Neff’s description from hospital staff getting into the car. The car’s owner told police that there was very little fuel in the vehicle and that “Neff won’t get far before completely running out of fuel.”
The report goes on to say that Neff’s mother called Hamilton County dispatch and told dispatchers that her daughter had stolen a shotgun recently and that she had only the day before been released from Silverdale Workhouse. Neff, the report states, has four outstanding warrants for her arrest out of Sevier County.
Warrants will be sought for a variety of charges, the report states, and the stolen vehicle was entered into a national crime data base.
_ 1000 McBrien Rd.: Police were called to the area just after midnight on Friday regarding a “shots fired” complaint.
According to a police report, the complainant stated they heard 10 to 15 shots fired. Police were directed toward the area of Altamaha and Weaver Street. Further information led officers to the wood line at the dead end of Weaver Street. Police entered the wooded area behind the Carmike Theater and located a green, nylon military bag with older military gear, the report states. In addition two homeless people in the area told officers they too heard the shots and directed police further south. Officers were unable to locate anyone, the report states.
The two homeless folks told police that they saw an older white male with a cane earlier but saw no firearm.
