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Man Charged With Ramming Vehicle Carrying His Children
December 8, 2016
An Escambia County man has been charged with ramming a vehicle occupied by four children and their mother.
Derrick Hemphill, 47, was charged with four counts of aggravated battery, two counts of aggravated child abuse and once count of resisting arrest.
The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of North Ninth Avenue and Airport Boulevard.
According to police reports, Hemphill’s 2008 Ford Fusion intentionally rammed a 2002 Mitsubishi SUV in which the victims were riding as they traveled south on Ninth Avenue toward Airport Boulevard. When the victims’ vehicle turned east onto Airport Boulevard, Hemphill’s vehicle rammed them again, which caused the Mitsubishi to flip and roll multiple times before coming to rest in the Krystal’s parking lot.
Hemphill then fled northbound on Ninth Avenue in his vehicle; police found him near Spink Lane and Ninth Avenue. The suspect then fled on foot toward Schwab Drive. He was found hiding underneath a house at Schwab Drive and Langley Avenue.
The suspect and a 48-year-old female in the Mitsubishi are parents of two children – ages seven and ten – who were injured. The 38-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi and the 48-year-old female also were injured.
Hemphill was not injured in the incident.
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4 Responses to “Man Charged With Ramming Vehicle Carrying His Children”
Well, his head is already shaved, so a little cooking to calm him down with electroshock therapy down at Chatahoochie could be in order. Anyone that would pull this kinda stuff, esp with his own kids in the vehicle, has a screw loose. I hope the victims will be okay.
Those poor kids! I can’t imagine that their lives are at all stable with that kind of craziness going on! Hopefully their mama will have the sense to press charges and get a restraining order–because it doesn’t matter what this guy gets sentenced, you know he’s not going to serve all of it.
Jail is too temporary he needs the long term solution of a lengthy prison sentence.
I swear, we really do need a basement jail so under the jail will be a real sentence! Let them sit in the dark.