Court documents show an Arkansas man arrested last week is accused of hiding in the trunk of his wife's car and shooting her in the neck.
Nelson Green Johnson, 37, was formally charged around 2 p.m. Tuesday with first-degree domestic battery and possession of a firearm by certain persons, each punishable by up to 20 years in prison. He was originally arrested on a charge of violating a no-contact order.
According to the probable cause affidavit on the new charges, Hot Springs police responded to a reported shooting on Carpenter Dam Road at Lakepark Drive around 7:30 a.m. Sept. 11 and found a woman, 37, on the roadside who had a large abrasion to her right forearm and a small wound to the right side of her neck.
In a news release Thursday, the city's Police Department identified the victim as Tyesha Green.
Green told officer Cash Murray she had been shot by her husband. She said she had just left her place of employment when Johnson "crawled out of the trunk and into the passenger area" of her 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix and shot her in the neck, court documents state.
According to the affidavit, she said she struggled with Johnson, got out of the car and was shot twice more: in the left shoulder and right breast.
Green told authorities he pulled her into the car, and with the passenger door still open, turned left onto Carpenter Dam from Lakepark Drive, causing her to be ejected onto the roadway.
A .22-caliber revolver was found in the street near where the victim was ejected, the affidavit states. She was airlifted from the scene to UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock for treatment. Police said Thursday that she was in stable condition.
Police said that Johnson reported he had wrecked the Grand Prix. At 7:45 a.m., Sgt. Richard Harkness located Johnson walking on Casey Street and took him into custody without incident, court documents show. A few minutes later, the Grand Prix was located about 50 yards off the roadway in the 600 block of Grand Point Drive.
Records show Johnson was arrested March 1 on a felony charge of second-degree domestic battery. He was accused of driving over his wife's legs and left hand with his car during a confrontation on Feb. 26.
Johnson pleaded not guilty to that charge May 1. He was later released on $5,000 bond July 6, records show, and a court order barring him from contact with Green was issued.
He remained in the Garland County jail Thursday morning in lieu of $355,000 bond.