UPDATE FROM DALLAS POLICE:

On Aug. 25,at approximately 7:17 p.m., officers responded to a call regarding several citizens holding down the suspect, Stephen Kennedy, a 20-year-old white male, because he stole and crashed victim’s in the 4100 block of Cedar Springs Road.

The victim’s vehicle, a 2008 Mercedes sedan, was taken in the 4000 block of Cedar Springs Road after the victim exited his vehicle, left it running, and the suspected entered the driver’s seat. The suspect attempted to drive off in the victim’s vehicle without consent, at which time the victim ran toward his vehicle, opened the driver’s door, and tried to pull the suspect out of the car. The suspect put the vehicle in drive, turned the wheel and accelerated at a high rate of speed, leaving the parking lot and entered the north bound traffic lanes of Cedar Springs Road.

When the suspect drove off, the driver door slammed into the victim’s body which caused him to fall forward into the driver seat. The victim’s feet were dragged on the concrete parking lot which caused road rash to the top of his toes. The suspect did not straighten the wheel and the vehicle continued to travel to the right and collided into the window of the Resource Center located at 4012 Cedar Springs Road.

After the vehicle crashed into the Resource Center, the suspect began to punch and kick the victim. Witnesses intervened and held the suspect until officers arrived.  Upon officers’ arrival, they requested medical attention for the suspect; DFR responded and the suspect was subsequently transported to an area hospital.  The suspect has since been transported to the Dallas County Jail.

The victim was treated by DFR at the scene and released.

UPDATE: According to LGBTQ DPD liaison Megan Thomas, the suspect, age 21, was transported to Parkland Hospital for treatment. He was interviewed by a DPD detective, was placed under arrest and transported from Parkland to Lew Sterrett Jail. He is charged with aggravated robbery.

UPDATE: Photos were taken by Christopher Castaneda, an employee at Alexander’s.

A man driving a stolen black Mercedes Benz coupe was caught and detained by two bystanders after crashing the car into the front of Resource Center’s Nelson-Tebedo Clinic at 4012 Cedar Springs Road.
According to Caven Enterprises employee Mikey Nguyen, who sent photos of the scene to Dallas Voice, the men – who identified themselves as Dante and Andrew – were eating dinner on the patio at Cedar Springs Tap House when they saw the car hit the building. When they saw the driver get out of the car and start to run away, they jumped the fence around the CSTH patio and caught him, holding him until police arrived.

According to Tanner Roberts, manager at CSTH, the car was stolen from a nearby parking lot while the owner was picking up food at a restaurant on The Strip.

Dallas Voice has no information yet on how much damage was done to the building or if anyone was injured. We will update this post as info becomes available.

-Tammye Nash