A man accused of running away from police after he threatened a woman with a gun was arrested early Wednesday.
Michael Martell Jamall Smith, 30, of Gainesville, pointed a gun at a woman and hit her in the face, according to a Gainesville Police arrest report.
Smith was driving a rented Chrysler 200 Tuesday night while the woman sat in the passenger seat, she told police. They were arguing over Smith not paying the rent for the car when he pulled out a gun from the back seat, the report said.
“You see this s---? We gone die tonight,” Smith said, according to the report.
Smith hit her in the face with an open hand, and she feared for her life, the report said. The relationship between the woman and Smith is unknown.
Smith was found guilty of robbery in 2009 and had a warrant for not paying child support, according to the arrest report.
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An officer saw Smith driving the Chrysler near Candlelight Estates, at 1600 NE 12th Ave., while patrolling and tried to pull him over at about 2 a.m. Wednesday, the report said. A different woman was in the car at the time, police said.
Police yelled for Smith to turn the car off. Instead, he drove away from police and parked on the north side of the complex, the report said.
Smith ran out of the car but was found by a police dog on Northeast Waldo Road, police said.
While in custody, Smith did not answer questions about assaulting the woman and said he ran because of his warrant, the report said.
Smith was charged with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of battery, one count of possessing a weapon and ammunition as a felon, one count of resisting an officer without violence and one count of fleeing an officer.
He is held in Alachua County Jail in lieu of a $210,000 bond.
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