A bizarre series of events led to the arrest of two people, after they were accused of attacking a police officer in Missouri earlier in the week.
Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy said Brandon L. David and Raven C. Gomez are being held without bond after they were picked up at a farm southeast of Moran Wednesday. How they got there is quite the story.
David and Gomez were sought after attacking a female officer at a Jasper, Mo., convenience store on Monday evening.
The initial call came after Jasper officers were summoned to the convenience store due to a disturbance, said the Jasper Police Department.
There, an officer found the couple in a car and ordered Gomez out of the vehicle for a pat down. As she was checking Gomez for weapons, Gomez punched the officer in the face, causing her to fall and hit her head on the ground.
David then exited the passenger side of the car and punched the disoriented officer several more times before entering the patrol vehicle.
He was unable to get the vehicle in drive, officers noted, perhaps because the patrol vehicle has a gear shift different from other vehicles.
David’s efforts proving unsuccessful, Gomez got back into her car and started to drive off. In so doing, she drove over the officer’s foot — twice. By then, David had exited the patrol vehicle and got back into Gomez’s car.
The officer avoided serious injury, Murphy noted, aside from various bumps and bruises.
By Tuesday, the suspects’ vehicle was spotted in Moran, where David has family members.
“So we knew they were in the area,” Murphy said.
Allen County deputies were joined by a number of deputies from Bourbon County as they approached a relative’s house, but by then David and Gomez had left.
FAST forward to Wednesday, when a passerby driving along a rural county road in Allen County spotted David and Gomez lying in a ditch, completely naked and covered in mud.
The good Samaritan offered the pair a ride to her house, where they showered and were given clean clothes to wear. Afterwards, the individual took the pair back to David’s relative’s house.
It was when the passerby was leaving that she spotted the duo in a mirror, apparently spinning in circles, that her suspicions piqued. She quickly notified David’s relatives of the incident, who then communicated with law enforcement.
