Man Pulls Knife on Woman, Crashes into her Car

A 22-year-old San Angelo man was arrested and jailed on Tuedsay evening after assault a woman at a Stripes, crashing his car into hers and exiting his car with a knife before fleeing the scene. 

According to police reports, Cody Dean-Miller McNeill saw a woman he knew in the parking lot of Stripes in the 1500 block of Bell St. and pulled into the parking lot, climbed out of his vehicle and got into hers. An argument ensued and McNeill assaulted the woman, who managed to grab an object in her defense. McNeill then exited the vehicle and climbed into his own orange Mitsubishi Eclipse and crashed into her car. 

Witnesses who saw the crash told police that they then saw McNeill get out of his vehicle wielding a large knife. One of the two watching the crime unfold then got out of the vehicle and walked toward McNeill in an attempt to protect the woman and McNeill got back into his car and drove off.

On the line with emergency dispatch, both the witnesses and the victim followed McNeill as he fled the scene, providing information on his whereabouts as police approached. An officer in the area was flagged down and pointed in the direction the vehicles had taken off and McNeill was stopped and arrested. He admitted to the responding officer that he had a knife in his car, which was located wrapped in a plastic baggie. 

After McNeill was taken into custody, he was interviewed at the police department by detective Lynn Dye and was later booked into the Tom Green County Jail for one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony. McNeill was not injured during the incident. The female sustained an injury to one of her arms.

McNeill was joined by 26 others in jail on Tuesday, six of which were charged with offenses alleged to have been committed within the last 24 hours. Some of those charges included three marijuana possession charges and one person jailed for DWI. 

Twenty-seven inmates were released on Tuesday.