Background: Soulsville Kitchen & Market on East McLemore Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee (Google Maps). Inset: Jasmine Nicole Lewis (Shelby County Sheriff’s Office).
A woman in Tennessee is accused of driving into the father of her children while the kids were in the car — before turning around and trying to do it again.
Jasmine Nicole Lewis, 28, has been charged with aggravated assault, domestic assault causing bodily harm, and five counts of child abuse and neglect or endangerment, according to Shelby County court records reviewed by Law&Crime. She was booked into the Shelby County Jail on Tuesday on $150,000 bond.
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On Tuesday afternoon, a man was walking south on Mississippi Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, when Lewis pulled up in a black Nissan Sentra, the Memphis Police Department wrote in an affidavit, citing a witness. Lewis and the man then had a brief conversation, which the man described as her “yelling at him about an incident that happened prior.”
“Lewis drove her vehicle into” the victim, the witness stated, before the defendant allegedly “turned around and attempted to run over him again.” Police said she drove into another vehicle.
The court document added: “Lewis had her 5 juvenile children in her vehicle when she ran over” the victim.
At about 4:35 p.m., officers with the Memphis Police Department arrived at the scene, which was in front of Soulsville Kitchen & Market on East McLemore Avenue in Memphis. The man was there, and he said “he had been hit by a vehicle and Jasmine Lewis, his child’s mother, was responsible.”
The defendant was also there, and though she reportedly “admitted to hitting” the man with her vehicle, she said “he hit her in her head with his fist first.” She was arrested and jailed.
Lewis was scheduled to appear in court on Friday for a bond hearing. Police did not mention any injuries to the victim.
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