A Pulaski County man who pleaded guilty last year to a federal count of interfering with flight crew members and attendants was sentenced to five years' probation Thursday in federal court in Little Rock during which time he is prohibited from drinking alcohol and must submit to substance abuse counseling.
FAYETTEVILLE More than three decades after he smashed a young girl’s head with a large rock, prosecutors, defense attorneys and doctors still disagree about whether Chris Segerstrom is mentally fit to proceed in a courtroom.
Segerstrom was 15 on July 26, 1986, when he took 4-year-old Barbara Thompson into a wooded area behind the Lewis Plaza Apartments several blocks west of the University of Arkansas. He sexually assaulted her before bashing her head with a 40-pound rock and suffocating her.