Man charged with kicking in windshield

Jaron Alexander Williams (Credit: DeKalb County Sheriff's Office)

Jaron Alexander Williams (Credit: DeKalb County Sheriff's Office)

A tip helped DeKalb County authorities arrest a man who allegedly jumped on the hood of a woman’s car in a parking lot and kicked in the windshield.

Jaron Alexander Williams, 29, of Atlanta, is in the DeKalb County jail on a charge of criminal damage to property, records show.

A Crime Stoppers of Greater Atlanta tip helped DeKalb deputies arrest Williams at a mental health facility, police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell said.

The incident happened about 1:30 p.m. June 5 as a woman pulled out of a Kroger parking lot in the 1100 block of Moreland Avenue, police said.

She said she had just left a gas station when the man kicked the windshield of her black Hyundai Sonata several times and then ran away.

Though she was not injured, the woman told Channel 2 Action News that the experience of “looking into someone’s face who clearly doesn’t care about anything or anyone and seeing him that close to you, kicking at you” was terrifying.

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