Man shot by FBI to remain behind bars

LITTLE ROCK — A man shot Tuesday by an FBI agent as he reportedly tried to drive through a line of police vehicles that encircled him in a store parking lot, damaging six of them, rolled into a federal courtroom Wednesday in a wheelchair.

Federal prosecutors sought to revoke the pretrial release of Cameron Bryant, 33, who is facing drug and gun charges stemming from a 2018 indictment and is on parole from the state Department of Corrections.

However, they didn’t get a chance to call witnesses to discuss the events Tuesday afternoon outside a Dollar General store at 9125 Stagecoach Road because Bryant’s attorney told U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Kearney that Bryant wouldn’t challenge the bond revocation request and agreed to be detained.

Defense attorney Lott Rolfe told the judge Bryant “suffered a gunshot wound from the incident,” though it wasn’t clear which part of Bryant’s body was injured.

U.S. Attorney Chris Givens said members of the FBI GET-Rock Task Force were monitoring potential drug activity in the area of Stagecoach and Baseline roads when they saw Bryant, in a gray Dodge Challenger, conduct “what appeared to be a hand-to-hand drug transaction.”

He said “multiple members” of the task force positioned their vehicles to block the Challenger from leaving the store parking lot, but Bryant tried to flee at high speed. In the process, he “struck at least six law enforcement vehicles, including a marked Arkansas State [Police] vehicle. [He] also drove toward individuals who were not in their vehicles” and slammed into the side of the store, Givens wrote.