CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A Clarksville man was recently arrested for aggravated assault after allegedly hitting two women in their faces with a pistol.
According to an arrest warrant, a victim told police she had been hanging out with her friend, 18-year-old Michael Lashan Smith, and had been driving her female friend home upon request.
Smith was riding in the front passenger seat and an argument ensued when he leaned his seat back and would not put it back up when the two women in the back asked him to.
During the course of the argument, one of the women reached up and hit Smith’s neck. The victims said Smith then turned around with a black pistol in his hand and starting hitting the back seat passengers.
One woman said she was hit in the face with the pistol once, and the other woman said she was hit twice with the gun so hard that it broke her braces and knocked one of her bottom teeth out completely.
The driver said she then stopped the vehicle and got out to run away because she was afraid she would be next.
One of the victims reportedly pepper sprayed Smith in the face in an attempt to stop him. Smith got out of the vehicle, removed his shirt, and ran behind Mary’s Music on Riverside Dr.
An officer made contact with Smith at this location and he agreed to talk to the officer about what had occurred.
He told the officer he did not have a weapon. However, the officer searched the area and found a small silver and black handgun in the dumpster behind Mary’s Music. The officer showed it to Smith, and he admitted that it was his.
In Smith’s version of the story, he said he was hit in the neck and pepper sprayed before pistol whipping the women.
Smith was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during commission of a dangerous felony, tampering with evidence, and felon possessing a firearm. His bond was set at $105,000.