Dad dangled kids between 6th-floor balconies after stealing gun, trying to evade cops: Police

Inset: Rafael T. Evans (Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office). Background: The flat gathering wherever Evans allegedly passed 2 kids betwixt sixth-floor balconies (Google Maps).

A 49-year-old antheral successful Indiana is accused of dangling 2 young children from the balcony of his sixth-floor flat to a neighbor's balcony arsenic helium attempted to evade instrumentality enforcement.

Rafael Theodore Evans was taken into custody implicit the play and charged with 2 counts each of home battery and unlawful possession of a firearm arsenic good arsenic 1 number each of neglect of a babelike and theft of a firearm, records show.

The incidental began erstwhile officers with the Evansville Police Department responded astir 9:45 a.m. to a 911 hang-up telephone astatine an flat gathering successful the 300 artifact of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, section NBC affiliate WFIE reported.

A pistillate placed the archetypal 911 telephone and told the exigency dispatcher that she and Evans had gotten into a verbal statement erstwhile helium allegedly physically assaulted her.

During an interrogation with detectives, the unfortunate reportedly said Evans struck her successful the caput doubly successful beforehand of his 2 young children, according to a report from section ABC affiliate WEHT.

After striking the victim, Evans allegedly stole her handgun. The unfortunate reportedly explained that she ne'er allowed Evans to instrumentality her weapon due to the fact that Evans, a convicted felon, was prohibited from possessing a firearm.

When archetypal responders arrived, they reportedly saw Evans connected a sixth-floor balcony, wherever helium allegedly passed 1 of his young children implicit the spread to the adjacent balcony. He past passed a 2nd kid implicit the aforesaid spread earlier crossing the spread himself and entering the neighboring apartment.

One of Evans' children reportedly near the neighbor's flat earlier Evans came retired holding the different child. He was past taken into custody without incident, according to the report.

The neighbors gave constabulary support to hunt their apartment, wherever investigators allegedly recovered a handgun. The 2 radical who lived successful the neighboring flat reportedly told constabulary they did not ain a weapon and did not cognize however the firearm got into their home.

Following his arrest, Evans reportedly told detectives helium ne'er had possession of the woman's firearm and blamed her for starting the argument.

Evans was processed astatine the Vanderburgh County Jail. A justice ordered him to stay successful detention for astatine slightest 24 hours earlier mounting a $300 cash-only bond. Should helium beryllium released, Evans cannot person immoderate interaction with the woman.

Evans is scheduled to look successful tribunal for his archetypal proceeding Nov. 11.

The Evansville Police Department did not instantly respond to an enquiry from Law&Crime seeking further information.

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