FORT SMITH, Ark.—
Two men are in jail in Fort Smith, after a handful of convenience store robberies late Tuesday night.19-year-old Aaron King along with 22-year-old Adrian Brewer were arrested after an officer spotted their car a few blocks from one of the convenience stores that was robbed.
The three robberies were almost exactly 30 minutes apart, starting at 11 p.m. with the E-Z Mart at 4121 Grand Avenue, and ending at the Valero on Rogers Avenue near Interstate 540.
Brandy Kerr was working at the Flash Market on Phoenix Tuesday night, which police say was the second place robbers hit. Brandy said at first, she didn't know what to think.
"I look, and there's just the guy standing there with the bandanna over his face, and I'm going, is this a joke? Then he brought the gun out," she said Wednesday.
Kerr says she actually saw the two men police later arrested before one of them came into her store with a gun. The daughter of a retired police officer, Kerr says she'd prepared for this situation to happen and tried to stay calm through the terrifying minutes the robber was there.
"He was just pointing the gun down at the counter, and I'm thinking, okay, keep the gun at the counter and I'll be okay," she said.
Police took a partial license plate number Kerr was able to write down, and after another store was hit several blocks away, a patrol officer spotted a car that matched the one Kerr saw in her parking lot.
"Both the suspects matched the descriptions, they found a gun, the same clothing with them and actually arrested them both for aggravated robbery," said Sgt. Levi Risley with the Fort Smith Police Department.
Police said Wednesday that Adrian Brewer, the believed getaway driver, is also the half-brother of Tristan Honey, who was charged with attempted capital murder in the shooting of Officer Barney Parsons Halloween night. Police say Brewer was in Honey's car when Officer Parsons was shot, but didn't face any charges.
King and Brewer are currently being held without bond in the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center on three counts each of aggravated robbery.
