Wanted Man to Authorities: 'Ya'll Better Take Me out Before I Take You Out'

Law enforcement officers with the Gwinnett County Police Department, the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department, the Barrow County Sheriff's Office, Loganville Police, Winder Police and Lawrenceville Police descended upon a Dacula residence on May 26 after a man who allegedly assaulted two Barrow County Sheriff's deputies holed up inside the home.

Gwinnett and Barrow deputies were conducting safety checkpoints when one of the Gwinnett deputies received a hit on a tag reader indicating a vehicle, which had just passed in the opposite direction on Atlanta Highway, was registered to a wanted person. The deputy conducted a traffic stop and determined the driver was not the wanted person. The driver, however, indicated the wanted person, Ashley Virginia McElroy, was staying at a Patrick Mill Road residence approximately two miles away from the location of the traffic stop.

Deputies from both agencies went to the Patrick Mill Road home. The Gwinnett deputies located McElroy inside and took her into custody. The Barrow deputies were still outside when a Jeep Wrangler pulled into the driveway.

The Barrow deputies, according to the incident report, waited until the driver, later identified as Darrell Thomas Parker, 39, of Dacula, stepped out of the vehicle before approaching him. Once the deputies identified themselves, Parker reportedly ran back to the Jeep, got inside and locked the doors.

The two Barrow deputies ordered Parker out of the vehicle at gunpoint. 

"Parker did not comply and sat and stared at me for four to five seconds and put his hands in the air," the deputy wrote in the report. "Parker then quickly started the Jeep and fled the driveway."

According to the report, the two deputies "were close to being struck by the Jeep when Parker fled, and gravel was thrown at us from the tires spinning out as Parker was fleeing. Parker utilized his vehicle as a weapon against us with full knowledge that his manner of operating the vehicle could lead to death or serious injury."

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