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NOPD Arrests Suspect Wanted for Attempted Second Degree Murder, Aggravated Assaults

by Dawne Massey

January 26, 2017

Categories: On Duty

Topics: Fifth District, Good Police Work

NOPD Arrests Suspect Wanted for Attempted Second Degree Murder, Aggravated Assaults

The NOPD arrested Kendall Simmons (DOB: 3/24/1986) who was wanted for attempted second degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

 

Shortly before 2 a.m. on January 26, 2017, Fifth District officers in a fully marked NOPD unit with activated lights and siren attempted to pull over an orange Dodge Journey with an expired license plate at the intersection of Almonaster Avenue and North Tonti Street. The driver of the vehicle did not comply with the officers’ signal and continued to travel into the 2200 block of Almonaster when the passenger of the vehicle jumped out and fled on foot.

 

The passenger, later identified as Kendall Simmons, was seen grasping at his front waistband while fleeing, and the pursuing officers believed Simmons was concealing an unknown type of weapon. Simmons was apprehended after he scaled a fence in the back yard of a residence in the 2200 block of Almonaster Avenue. Officers secured the suspect and found a blue steel Glock model 21 handgun with a fully charged high capacity magazine near the location where Simmons scaled the fence.  

 

Simmons was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, resisting an officer by flight and parole violations.