Walmart Shoppers Chase, Shoot At Suspected Purse Snatcher
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WACO (CBSDFW.COM) - Shoppers at a Bellmead Walmart Supercenter banded together Friday to catch a crook who allegedly stole an elderly woman's purse, according to KWTX-TV, channel 10.
Witnesses said Andre Dawson, 27, snatched the 87-year-old woman's purse as she and another woman unloaded groceries from a shopping cart Friday afternoon. He then ran with four or five other men in pursuit. A violent struggle ensued, and a woman even fired a gun shot at Dawson, according to KWTX-TV, channel 10. He stumbled when the shot was fired, but wasn't hit and was recaptured.
The woman who fired the shot got back in her truck and drove off, witnesses said.
Her case will be forwarded to a grand jury, according to KWTX-TV, channel 10. She went to the Bellmead Police Department Friday night.
"She was released pending further investigation," police said in a press release Monday afternoon.
Dawson was arrested at the scene, according to Bellmead police Detective Kory Martin.
He remained in the McLennan County Jail Monday in lieu of $2,000 bond, charged with theft of less than $100.
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