The Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office took several phone calls on Tuesday February 25, relating to an alleged domestic disturbance in the median of Highway 28 just east of Leesville.  Callers told the VPSO that a female had been pursued by a vehicle and struck by it.

Officers canvassed the area and were told by witnesses the vehicle had fled west toward Leesville.  Officers were able to locate the car at a Leesville fast-food diner.

Contact was made with the male subject, identified as Dalton Jacquillard, age 31, of Alexandria.  A female passenger said she had been struck by the vehicle but denied it was a domestic disturbance, blaming the incident on an alleged health condition of Jacquillard.

The female acknowledged an injury to her arm.  Onlookers of the incident told deputies the female was screaming and gesturing at Jacquillard.  Drivers who stopped to offer help said the female began running away, when the driver drove the vehicle backwards.  The driver then did a U-turn and began chasing the female with the car.  Witnesses said the vehicle was accelerating at the time it hit the woman.

Following the incident, arrest warrants were prepared and Jacquillard was arrested Tuesday night by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office at a residence near Starks.  Wednesday, February 26, Jacquillard was transported to Vernon Parish and booked into jail on one count of Domestic Abuse Battery and one count of Domestic Abuse Aggravated Assault.

Bond has not been set pending a Gwen’s Law hearing.  Jacquillard remains in the Vernon Parish Jail.