Gainesville Police arrested a man early Wednesday morning after he chased his girlfriend out of her second-story window and held onto her car roof as she drove away.
At about 1:30 a.m., Towshanda Hill’s boyfriend, Allen Lenard Nelson, arrived at her house, 2542 SW 31st Place, wanting to borrow her car.
According to a GPD arrest report, Hill, 28, and Nelson, 32, started arguing about their relationship.
The couple fought for about an hour, mainly about “ignorant” stuff, Hill said Wednesday afternoon.
Hill went to the bathroom upstairs. When she came out, she said, she saw Nelson holding a knife behind his back at the bottom of the stairs.
According to the report, Nelson pretended he was going to throw the knife, and Hill fled to her room. As Nelson kicked down the door, she jumped from her window and ran to her car.
She locked her car doors as Nelson followed her outside. He climbed onto the car roof and started yelling at her.
Hill said she backed out of the parking lot and drove east on Southwest 31st Place as Nelson clung to the roof, screaming for help.
As she turned onto Southwest 23rd Terrace, Nelson fell off the car roof. Hill called police from a friend’s house.
A witness said she and her husband heard screaming and called police after seeing a man, presumably Nelson, hanging onto a car roof as it sped down the road.
The woman, who did not want her name published, said she and her husband saw the man again as he ran down the street across from their house.
Police later arrived at Hill’s house and thought Nelson barricaded himself inside, said GPD spokeswoman Cpl. Angelina Valuri.
Officers from the GPD Criminal Investigation Division, SWAT team and Negotiation Response Team responded to the call.
Police questioned Hill to find Nelson, who lives at 803 SE 12th Ave., where he was later arrested.
Nelson was charged with aggravated assault with a weapon and booked into Alachua County Jail at 10:01 a.m.
As of Wednesday night, Nelson remained in jail. A bond had not been set.
Contact Chris Alcantara at calcantara@alligator.org.
