AUSTIN, Texas — A woman faces multiple felony charges after allegedly stealing a delivery driver’s vehicle, striking him in the head with a glass bottle and leading Austin police on a brief chase that ended when her vehicle crashed into a light pole Wednesday evening.
Akira Ahamad-Hickman, 19, was taken into custody near Rio Grande Street and West 4th Street following the pursuit, according to the Austin Police Department.
The incident began around 6:29 p.m. in the 600 block of West 7th Street, where a delivery driver had left his vehicle running while making a delivery at an apartment complex. When he returned, he found Ahamad-Hickman inside the vehicle attempting to drive away. As he tried to stop her, she “struck him in the head with a glass bottle” and fled the scene, police said…