Female firefighter raped in Arkansas firehouse. Victim’s dad accused of shooting at suspect, who is fire chief’s son.
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The firefighter son of the chief of the District Six Fire Department in Crawford County, Arkansas is accused of raping a female firefighter at the firehouse. The rape victim's father is also under arrest, charged with firing shots at the home where the suspect lived with his girlfriend.
“There was a sexual assault … a rape that occurred at the District Six Fire Department on Pleasant Valley Road,” Crawford County Chief Deputy Jim Damante said. “The female claimed she was raped (by a firefighter) in an office in the building.”
Investigators with the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office arrested the firefighter Monday night. Damante identified him as Jimmy Sullivent III, 34. Damante confirmed that the suspect is the son of Jim Sullivent, chief of the District Six Fire Department.
The alleged victim, Damante said, told her father about the rape, which she said happened around 11:30 a.m. The woman’s father traveled to the residence off Mount Grove Road near Alma where Jimmy Sullivent III was at around 6:30 or 7 p.m., Damante said.
“The suspect was standing outside his girlfriend’s house,” Damante said. “The dad fired several rounds at the house. He hit the house several times and hit some vehicles, then fled the scene.”
The incident began as a dispute earlier in the night between the alleged shooter and the intended target, said chief deputy Jimmy Demonte with the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect went to the intended victim’s home and fired seven or eight shots at the house, Demonte said.
No one was injured, but the home and some vehicles sustained damage from the fired shots, he said.
5NEWS is not releasing the name of the father who police say fired shots, in order to protect the identity of the alleged rape victim.
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