TENNESSEE – A 20-year-old Nashville man is in custody after he fled from a Clarksville Police Department detective, struck him with his Jeep, and was found in East Nashville with a runaway juvenile. Clarksville detectives were searching for a missing 17-year-old at 189 Wallace Road when they saw her get into an orange Jeep Renegade with Skyler E. Whitefield-Brewner on March 18.
Whitefield-Brewner was given several commands to turn his car off and exit the vehicle before he backed up at a high rate of speed, hitting the detective with the Jeep. The detective was knocked to the ground.
The pair was arrested by MNPD East Precinct officers near Hutson Avenue. Whitefield-Brewner was charged with aggravated assault of a first responder, evading arrest, and two misdemeanor probation violations. The 17-year-old girl was charged with being a runaway juvenile.
The Clarksville detective declined to be transported to the hospital for his minor injuries.
