Jacob D. Hinson was arrested on March 24 on a Crawford County warrant alleging two class B felony counts of first-degree domestic assault, a class E felony of third-degree domestic assault, the class B felony for discharging a firearm at or from a motor vehicle or habitable structure as a persistent offender, and a class E charge of third-degree domestic assault.

Deputy Kathen Hanson of the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office wrote the probable statement.

He was dispatched to Old Mill Road for an active disturbance and a vehicle that had crashed into a single-wide mobile home.

Upon arrival, Hanson saw an unnamed deputy speaking with the victim, who said that Hinson shot at her when she was in her vehicle. She was transported to the hospital for injuries and later released.

“The Deputy advised me CP (victim) had stated to him upon his arrival that she was in an altercation with her current and/or past intimate partner, Jacob Hinson,” Hanson wrote. “I observed a silver Chrysler Sebring with the entire hood resting under the northwest side of the mobile home.”

There appeared to be a hole from a shotgun round under the bottom of the driver’s side rear passenger door, approximately three to five feet from where the victim was sitting. Hanson concluded that while analyzing the entrance hole, what appeared to be a buckshot, or similar to, shotgun round, fired straight in, perpendicular to the vehicle.

“Indicating the round was not shot when the vehicle turned towards the mobile home and accelerated,” Hanson wrote. A 12-gauge shotgun casing was located close to the mobile home.

According to Hinson’s statement, the victim woke up mad about missing an appointment, where she slapped him and wouldn’t leave.

“Jacob stated he ‘pulled’ CP out of the mobile home,” Hanson wrote.

He claimed she then got in her car, drove to the front of the mobile home, hit the accelerator and aimed at him. He explained that he did shoot at the car, but it was to warn her not to hit him. He then ended the conversation by asking for a lawyer.

Hanson saw no marks on Hinson indicating that the victim hit him, but he did see tire tracks that suggested a sudden acceleration.

Two of Hinson’s family members were witnesses to the scene and said that the victim drove the car down the road, parallel to the mobile home.

“They stated Jacob was standing on the (northwest) side of the mobile home, the car stopped, and Jacob and CP were yelling at each other,” Hanson wrote. “The vehicle then accelerated, turning 45 degrees, and crashed into the mobile home. Jacob then pulled CP out of the vehicle, and they got in a physical altercation.”

CP then got into Hinson’s vehicle, a GMC SUV, which Jacob dragged her out of when she started it. They said he then proceeded to get in the SUV, abruptly accelerated and accidentally crashed into the front porch. They claimed they had no knowledge of seeing Hinson with a firearm or hearing one fire.

Hinson later requested to speak to Hanson to give more on his side of the story.

Hinson claimed CP was destroying things on her way out of the mobile home and threatened to ram her car through it. He fired a warning shot into the air, and it kept jamming as he tried to shoot at the tires to slow the car down.

With a search warrant, several types of ammunition were found, but not firearms. Hinson was arrested and is currently being held in the Crawford County Jail.

In a later interview with CP, she told the deputy that they got into a verbal altercation after spending the night together.

“He wanted her to leave. CP did not want to leave until she got her phone and money he owed her. CP stated Jacob dragged her by her hair from the bedroom, down the hall to the back door, she grabbed the door and kicked at him to get him off of her,” Hanson wrote. “He dragged CP down the stairs at the back of the mobile home and to where her vehicle was parked.” 

She was given her backpack, but not her phone, so she drove to the front of the home and saw Hinson standing there with a firearm. He then fired at her once, hitting the car, which caused her to accelerate the car, in fear, turning towards the home and accidentally striking it in her attempt to flee.

She claimed that he tried to fire again, but the firearm jammed, so he instead struck her in the side of the head with the buttstock through the open driver’s side window.

She said she got out of the car and ran onto the front porch in an attempt to get her phone. Meanwhile, Jacob got into his vehicle and intentionally crashed it into the porch, attempting to hit her.

“CP said she got off the porch, Jacob got out of his vehicle, and he began punching her several times,” Hanson wrote. “CP showed me the abrasions on her back, consistent with her statement of Jacob dragging her inside the mobile home and down the stairs.”

She mentioned that the two previous witnesses ran over to get Jacob off of her. She proceeded to grab her belongings and walk down the road when law enforcement made contact with her.

Hinson’s next court appearance is scheduled at 9 a.m. on May 7 before Judge Patrick Horsefield’s 42nd Circuit Court.