Drive-by victim arrested for pistol-whipping woman

Just a day after suffering a gun shot wound to the hand in an April 29 drive-by, a Cedar Rapids teen was arrested for pistol-whipping a young woman.

According to Cedar Rapids police, Jagarius Bell, 18, of 1428 A St. SW, was involved in a dispute at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street on Tuesday, April 27, when he hit an 18-year-old woman with a silver colored pistol.

A warrant was put out for his arrest on Thursday, just hours before Bell was shot in the hand near the 1500 block of Washington Avenue SE.

Bell was taken to Mercy Hospital and then the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. UIHC notified Cedar Rapids police when Bell was released, and he was arrested at 1438 A Ave. NE Friday, April 30.

Officers say Bell was arrested without incident and he had no weapons on him at the time. Bell pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily injurly last summer, and now faces a charge for assault with a deadly weapon.

Bell is still being held in Linn County Jail on a $6,500 bond.