ALittle Rock man faces multiple charges, including attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer, after a May 10 incident in which he allegedly attacked a deputy sheriff at Mercy hospital in Berryville, took the deputy’s service weapon and fired two shots before being subdued by a nurse.
WilliamKevinRose,25,isbeingheldona$500,000 cash bond in the Benton County Detention Center in Bentonville. Rose appeared Monday, May 19, before Carroll County District Judge Dale Ramsey, who found probable cause to charge Rose with attempted murder as well as first-degree escape. Ramsey ordered Rose to appear at 9 a.m. Monday, June 2, in Carroll County Circuit Court in Berryville.
Rose also faces multiple charges — including felony counts of breaking or entering, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and terroristic threatening — stemming from his arrest by Eureka Springs police on May 9.
After being arrested by ESPD officers at Dr. Paul’s drug and alcohol treatment center on Huntsville Road, Rose was booked into the Carroll County Detention Center in Berryville on May 10, according to intake records from the jail.
According to an affidavit written by special agent Jana Cordes of the Arkansas State Police, Rose was transported to Mercy by a deputy sheriff after attempting to hang himself in the detention center by tying a sheet to a support bar on the wall and then wrapping the sheet around his neck. At the hospital, Rose attacked the deputy, forced him to the ground and took his pistol from its holster. Cordes’ affidavit says Rose then attempted to shoot the deputy, who is not identified.
Rose fired two shots in the hospital’s emergency room while a nurse struggled with him to gain control of the weapon, the affidavit says. Eventually, the nurse was able to subdue Rose and gain control of the weapon, according to the affidavit. Rose then left the hospital and ran into a nearby wooded area, where he used a rock to break the chain between his leg shackles, the affidavit says. He was spotted by a drone walking in a field just east of Hailey Road, where deputies captured him, the affidavit says.
Cordes’ affidavit says that during his arrest, Rose made several statements saying that he tried to kill the deputy and asking what the charges are for trying to kill an officer. According to the affidavit, Rose told officers he was not suicidal and that if he were he would have shot himself after he took the deputy’s gun in the hospital.
The state police investigated the incident at the request of Carroll County Sheriff Daniel Klatt.
In addition to Cordes’ affidavit regarding the incident at the Berryville hospital, the Times-Echo also obtained copies of incident reports and a probable- cause affidavit from the Eureka Springs Police Department that detail Rose’s original arrest in Eureka Springs.
According to the probable-cause affidavit written by ESPD officer Lyndee Lipper, she and officer Michael Boseman responded just before 10 p.m. Friday, May 9, to a commercial burglar alarm at Smoke Maven, located at 2076 E. Van Buren.
The glass in the front door had been shattered and there were two large rocks near the door, the affidavit says. The officers could see several packs of cigarettes on the floor inside the store, according to the affidavit. After a key holder arrived, the officers checked the store and were assessing the damage inside when they were advised by dispatch that a fight was in progress at Dr. Paul’s, the affidavit says. Boseman left the store to assist officer Jack Lisle.
On video from the store surveillance camera, Lipper watched as a tall, white male broke through the glass in the front door, the affidavit says. Lipper recognized the male as someone she had seen walking up and down Huntsville Road, near Dr. Paul’s, earlier that night, according to the affidavit.
Boseman called Lipper over the radio to advise that the male that he and Lisle were with at Dr. Paul’s might be the suspect from the break-in, the affidavit says. Lipper sent a photograph from the video to Lisle, who confirmed a match, the affidavit says.
According to the affidavit, the man at Dr. Paul’s, identified as Rose, was fighting Boseman and Lisle, and Lipper left Smoke Maven and went to back them up. When Lipper arrived at Dr. Paul’s, the affidavit says, Boseman and Lisle were holding Rose against the ground, and Lipper pulled her Taser and advised Rose that she would tase him if he continued to resist. Rose relented and Boseman retrieved his leg hobble from his vehicle to keep Rose from kicking the officers, the affidavit says.
Lipper spoke with staff at Dr. Paul’s, who said Rose told a nurse he had broken into a smoke store, the affidavit says. The nurse said Rose was “cut up pretty badly,” the affidavit says, and she attempted to tend to his wounds and advised a coworker to call the police. The facility’s house manager told Rose he was calling the police, according to the affidavit, and Rose attacked the house manager and fought with another employee who tried to intervene.
Lipper recovered clothing with tears and blood stains, as well as a bag containing five packs of cigarettes matching brands that had been stolen from Smoke Maven, the affidavit says.
After being cleared by EMS and taken into custody, Rose was placed in Boseman’s patrol unit to be transferred to the detention center, the affidavit says. Rose began head-butting the vehicle and later kicking the door and window, the affidavit says, but was mostly quiet during the drive to the detention center. Several jailers met Boseman and Lisle in the detention center sally port to get Rose out of the patrol car, the affidavit says. Once he was out of the car, Rose became combative again, spitting on several jailers and officers and threatening to kill them, the affidavit says. Rose was put into a restraint chair and fitted with a spit hood, accordingto the affidavit.
Boseman was treated at Eureka Springs Hospital for injuries sustained during the altercation with Rose, the affidavit says. Lisle also was injured, and both officers’ injuries were photographed, according to the affidavit.
