Outstanding police work by East Precinct Officer Jamie King led to Tuesday night's arrest of a 15-year-old runaway who minutes earlier carjacked a Tennessee Department of Correction employee.
Chrisantoney D. Woods, of North 2 nd Street , is being held at the Juvenile Detention Center on a variety of charges, including robbery/carjacking.
Ronald Pointer, 57, stopped his 1984 Chevrolet Celebrity for the stop sign at the intersection of Cleveland Street and Lischey Avenue at 8:25 p.m. Woods appeared, pointed a pistol at Pointer, and demanded that he surrender the car. Woods then slid behind the wheel and was joined in the car by two other young men.
Woods drove westbound on Cleveland Street while Pointer walked to a nearby fire station to notify police. Within minutes of Pointer's call, Officer King spotted the car at the intersection of Cleveland and Stockell Streets. When King attempted to stop the vehicle, all three occupants quickly jumped out and fled. King parked his police car and chased the driver (Woods) for several blocks before catching up to him in the 900 block of Stockell Street. Pointer subsequently identified Woods as the gunman.
"Mr. Pointer's quick call to the police department, combined with Officer King's tremendous police work, took a dangerous teen off the streets of East Nashville," Chief Ronal Serpas said.
The gun was not recovered. The two persons in the car with Woods got away.
Chrisantoney Woods
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