Charles City man arrested for alleged 2018 attack on woman in car

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

A Charles City man who has been sought for two years for allegedly hitting a woman with a gun has been arrested.

Tristan M. Walker, age 40, was taken into custody Aug. 11 by a Floyd County sheriff’s deputy in Cook County, Illinois.

According to the criminal complaints filed in 2018 in Floyd County District Court, on Aug. 11, 2018, Walker struck a woman several times in her head with a gun while she was sitting in a car in a parking lot in the 2100 block of Clark Avenue, causing a golfball-size lump on her head.

The court documents say Walker and another woman, Tasiana Stephens, now age 32 and serving a prison sentence for the incident, were involved in the attack.

The documents say Walker asked Stephens to bring him his gun from her apartment, which he then used to point at, threaten and hit the alleged victim.

The complaints say Walker also physically restrained and confined the woman in a car that was traveling around town “and did not slow down nor let her out ot the car.” The woman “was not able to leave and her freedom to move about was taken away.”

The woman sought care at the Floyd County Medical Center Emergency Room, where she was diagnosed with a concussion. There was also a red mark on her left chest area and her neck was red. The woman feared for her life, the court documents state.

Walker was arrested last week on charges of first-degree burglary, a Class B felony; willful injury causing bodily harm, a Class D felony; going armed with intent, a Class D felony; and false imprisonment, a serious misdemeanor.

Walker is being held in Floyd County Jail under $36,000 cash bond. A preliminary hearing has been set for Friday.

In addition to getting the gun, Stephens was accused of sitting on top of the victim in the victim’s car and punching her several times.

She was charged with first-degree burglary, going armed with intent and willful injury resulting in bodily harm. She pleaded guilty to the charge of willful injury causing bodily harm and the other two charges were dismissed.

On March 18, 2019, Stephens was sentenced to up to five years in prison. She is currently serving her sentence in the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville.