Man arrested for allegedly threatening and pulling a weapon

A Cabot man was arrested Monday on felony and misdemeanor warrants accusing him of pointing a gun at a local family, including several minors, and repeatedly threatening to kill them in April.

Tathan Davontay Smith, 23, was taken into custody in Cabot shortly after 11:30 a.m. and transported back to Hot Springs, where he was booked into the Garland County Detention Center shortly before 4 p.m. He was charged with aggravated assault and terroristic threatening, each punishable by up to six years in prison, and three misdemeanor counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, each punishable by up to one year in prison.

Smith remained in custody Wednesday because he was unable to post $13,500 bail. He is scheduled to appear in Garland County District Court on July 19. According to court records, he was previously arrested in Garland County on October 24, 2020, for allegedly shooting another person in the back of the head. The charges were dropped on September 2, 2021 “pending further investigation.”

According to the probable cause affidavit, Hot Springs police responded to a call to a Spring Street apartment on April 28 regarding an assault that allegedly occurred two days earlier, on April 26.

Officers spoke with a woman, her minor son, and her daughter. All stated that the daughter was in a relationship with a man named Smith and they were “hanging out at the residence.” At one point, they got into an argument after the daughter asked him to leave.

During the argument, the son allegedly saw Smith “touching” his sister, so he and Smith began to argue. The mother heard everyone screaming and went into the living room.

She said she saw Smith reach into his waistband and pull out a handgun “with an extended magazine.” She said he raised his arm to aim the gun down the hallway where her son and three other children, ages 3, 4 and 10, were, so she grabbed his arm and wrist and forced him out of the apartment.

As Smith left, he allegedly told the woman, “I’m going to kill you,” “I’ll take care of this business,” and something to the effect of “the business didn’t get taken care of.”

On April 30, the woman said, Smith posted on Facebook and Snapchat saying he was going to “shoot them all.”

HSPD Detective Shawn Woodall observed screenshots from the woman that showed alleged messages from Smith telling her, “I say you better be careful,” and a video he sent her in which Smith was holding two different firearms and “rapping” that he was going to “shoot up places.” It was noted that he was also constantly calling her.