Tyler Dylan Brock v. State of Arkansas

── Tyler Dylan Brock v. State of Arkansas ── Court: Court of Appeals of Arkansas Date: April 01, 2026 Category: General Cite as 2026 Ark. App. 201 ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION II No. CR-25-435 TYLER DYLAN BROCK Opinion Delivered April 1, 2026 APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE SALINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT V. [NO. 63CR-23-205] STATE OF ARKANSAS HONORABLE JOSH FARMER, APPELLEE JUDGE AFFIRMED BRANDON J. HARRISON, Judge Tyler Dylan Brock appeals the judgment revoking a six-year probation sentence the circuit court imposed in May 2023 after he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of his mother. 1 The conditions of probation required him to obey all federal and state laws. The State filed a timely petition to revoke alleging he broke that condition on 20 December 2024 by committing terroristic threatening. The victim was again his mother, Tonya Barnes. Tyler was mentally unwell. His doctors had gone back and forth between diagnoses of bipolar I and schizoaffective disorder. He had been on medication before; Tonya said the medications were effective. But Tyler hated taking them. She testified that she went 1 Aggravated assault of a family or household member is a Class D felony punishable by imprisonment for up to six years. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 5-26-306(b) (Supp. 2023) & 5-4- 401(a)(5) (Repl. 2024). to meet him the morning of December 20 after he called her from someone else’s phone. He had gotten rid of his phone and his clothes. He had spent the previous week living in the woods in a concrete trench under a bridge. She took him to her church to try to get housing assistance. His behavior there was fine. She took him to Walmart then for some things to get him through the week. Tyler became very agitated. She tried to calm him down, and things escalated. His nostrils were flared, and his eyes were dark. He wouldn’t calm down. “He didn’t say he was going to kill me[,]” Tonya said. “He just told me that God had told him to kill me.” Her mind “automatically went back” to his last offense, “when he did try to kill me.” 2 He called her a “fucking bitch” and a “fucking murderer” because she had put him in treatment facilities in the past. She testified that she called police, and obtained an order of protection against Tyler, because “I’m terrified of my son. I love him with all my heart, but I’m scared to death of him.” Tyler admitted he had told his mother that God told him to kill her. Pressed on the point, he responded, “Sir, I have a mental diagnosis. All of it is on record.” Tyler appeals the circuit court’s finding that he committed first-degree terroristic threatening and its decision to sentence him to the Arkansas Division of Correction instead of “HOPE Court” as he requested. A person commits first-degree terroristic threatening when “[w]ith the purpose of terrorizing another person, the person threatens to cause death or serious physical injury or 2 The criminal information alleged that Brock, “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, threatened to kill his mother, tried to stab her with a knife, and struck her in the stomach.” There was no testimony at the revocation hearing about the details of the attack. 2 substantial property damage to another person[.]” Ark. Code Ann. § 5-13-301(a)(1)(A) (Repl. 2024). The statute prohibits “the communication of a threat with the purpose of terrorizing another person.” Adams v. State, 2014 Ark. App. 308, at 6, 435 S.W.3d 520, 524. A person acts purposely with respect to conduct or a result of conduct when it is his conscious o