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Man found dead in Little Rock street
This is a detailed narrative of this morning’s kidnapping which led up to the murder of Forrest Abrams on 11th street. It was given to me by Dave Hodges, cousin to Tyler Hodges, the surviving victim:
“Tyler met Forrest for the first time late last night at the house of a mutual friend on Grove Street in Capitol View. Forrest said that he could give him a ride home from the friend’s house where they met. After they left the house, Forrest drove them to EZ Mart on 12th street. Tyler went to get the smokes, while Forrest stayed in the car.
As Tyler was walking, a black guy came up and asked him for $5. Tyler ignored him. After he purchased the smokes, Tyler walked back to Forrest’s vehicle. He saw the same black guy with his head in Forrest’s window. In Tyler’s words; “It looked like Forrest was trying to buy some dope, or something.” The black guy got into the car (invited), so Tyler got into the back seat. All of a sudden, both back doors flew open, and two other black males entered the car with pistols. Then, the original guy (front seat) pulled his pistol…..
They made them drive around for a good while, (Tyler says that he is not sure how long they drove around, because he was still drunk.) Then, they made both guys give them their cell phones, keys, cash, and bill folds. When they were looking through Tyler’s bill fold, they saw that he had a Bank of America debit card.
They asked him if it had any money on it, then they drove to Bank of America, to go to the ATM. He was not able to draw any money, which made the suspects angry, so they told Tyler that he had better produce $2500, or they would kill both of them. Tyler said that the only thing he could come up with was to go to my little brother’s house (to ask for money), so that’s what he did. He told the guys where they lived, which was only a few blocks away. Tyler was told that he could not go to the front door alone, so they sent one guy to the porch with him.
This suspect held a gun to Tyler’s back the whole time. Tyler knocked on the door, and my older sister answered. Tyler was crying and saying that he needed to see Jordan, because he needed to borrow some money. So, my sister woke up Jordan. When Jordan came outside, he was yelling and screaming at Tyler, because he thought something fishy was going on with him, he had no idea that he was being robbed. At some point, Tyler was able to run in the front door and slam it in the suspects face. He told my sister to “Call the police, they are going to come kill us all. Go grab a gun!” (He did not know that my little brother already had his .45 on a nearby table, loaded.)
As soon as Tyler made it in the door, the suspect ran back to the car, and they sped off. The police were immediately called. A few minuted later, the police took Tyler down to the station. because they had found the other young man deceased. The police interrogated Tyler for 6 hours. They did not have him look at mugshots, they only asked him questions. — Also FH, If you deem it appropriate, can you please post something at the end of this statement saying that: If the perpetrators ever try to come back to that address, that five people that live there all have concealed weapons, and that any intruders will be shot dead.”
