Man: Four robbers forced him to pray

A man told police that robbers handcuffed him and forced him to “pray to Allah” during a robbery early Friday at a south Little Rock motel.

The 21-year-old man said three people approached him about 1:25 a.m. on the eastbound Interstate 30 access road, with one showing a gun in his waistband, according to a report.

The three men accompanied the 21-year-old to his room at the Super 7 Inn at 9525 Interstate 30, the report said.

The 21-year-old, whose listed address is at that motel, said that when he went to his room, the three went in with him, and a short time later told him to get some ice from the front office. When the man returned, the three men forced him to lie on his bed, and then a fourth man appeared with handcuffs, he told police.

He was then handcuffed before the men reportedly made him kneel in a corner and pray to Allah, the Arabic term for God, the report said. One of the men then demanded money while pointing a silver revolver at the 21-year-old’s forehead, the report said.

Authorities later arrested Emmett Seals, 22, and Brian Keith Perkins, 48, both of Little Rock, at the motel on charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping. After Seals, whose listed address is also the motel, consented to a search of his room, police found an unloaded silver Smith & Wesson revolver, a .177-caliber black pellet pistol and ammunition for the weapons in a black backpack, authorities said.