STAFFORD — (Press Release) A suspect was is charged with attempted first-degree murder she ran over her girlfriend’s leg with her vehicle in Stafford County.
On December 18, 2018, 9:06 p.m., deputies were called to a report of a pedestrian struck in the area of Cynthias Place in the England Run North Apartments. They learned that a female subject ran over her girlfriend with her vehicle.
They found a victim who was in her apartment on a couch with her leg propped up. Her leg had tire marks running from her ankle to her knee. She told the deputy she had been run over by her girlfriend.
The victim told deputies she had been receiving threatening messages from the suspect throughout the day. When she arrived home, she saw the suspect parked in a vehicle.
The victim began walking toward the suspect’s car when she paused to look down at her phone. When she looked up again, the suspect was driving toward her.
The victim then tripped and the suspect drove over her leg. The victim managed to hobble to the curb, at which point she said the suspect got out of her vehicle and told her “I’m going to kill you.”
In the meantime, the suspect’s vehicle continued to move forward and struck a parked vehicle. The victim said the suspect then got back into the vehicle and began driving it toward her again, prompting the victim to hide in a nearby stairwell.
The victim made it to the stairwell just moments before the suspect crashed the vehicle into the wall of the stairwell. The victim returned to her apartment and called the Sheriff’s Office.
Tyasia Faith Snell, 19, of Spotsylvania, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted malicious wounding, malicious wounding, domestic assault and battery, destruction of property, and hit and run.
