If Beau Christian Reed planned

to flee the area to avoid being arrested for last week's savage attack

on a hotel clerk in Peachtree City, he made one big slip-up.

After he was phoned by a detective

and he agreed to come to the police department for an interview Friday,

Reed instead loaded his roommate's car with his belongings and stole

it from their Sharpsburg residence, said Police Chief James Murray. Reed

told his roommate he was heading to work at the Applebee's restaurant

in Fayetteville, Murray said.

After leaving his residence,

Reed stopped at the Hall's Grocery convenience store on Fisher Road

for a pack of cigarettes, according to a store employee. Reed left empty-handed

since the store couldn't take his charge card, but he got more than

he bargained for as he headed