Left: Kevin Harrison booking photo Leesburg Police Department/Right: Destiny Pendleton booking photo Leesburg Police Department
A woman in Florida has been charged with evidence tampering and resisting officers after police say she hid gun shell casings in her privates that she snagged from the scene of a fatal shooting.
According to arrest records and a police affidavit obtained Friday by Law&Crime, police arrested Destiny Pendleton, 23, on Dec. 27 after receiving calls about a shooting at a residence in Leesburg. Once on the scene, they found a 37-year-old man “covered in blood and motionless.”
The man, later identified as Lekendre Hall, was dead — and Pendleton, police said, was standing next to his body.
Records allege Pendleton gave chase once seeing the officer and ran to the back of the house, climbed a fence into a neighbor’s yard and then jumped off, plummeting to the ground.
She was detained there without incident until police patting her down noticed “obstructions in her left front pocket resembling a spent shell casing.”
There were three or four shell casings that officers could discern at first, they alleged, and when they asked Pendleton what the items were, she allegedly confirmed they were taken from the crime scene where officers first began chasing her. But a few moments later, an arresting officer went to take them out of Pendleton’s pocket but they had gone missing. When asked where they were, she told officers she didn’t know what they were talking about, an affidavit shows.
Search with the help of a female officer shortly after that exchange, however, led to three of the casings being found inside Pendleton’s “front private area where she had taken them out of her front left pocket and put them in that private area.”
The man accused of killing Hall, Kevin Harrison, 19, surrendered himself to authorities on Friday. A copy of his arrest record was not immediately available upon request to the Leesburg Police Department on Friday.
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