BSO: Truck Stop Robbery Leaves Woman On Life Support
PLANTATION (CBSMiami) — A 28-year-old Plantation woman has been declared brain dead and is on life support after being critically injured during a robbery at the Seminole Truck Stop in Weston last week.
Kimberlyn Clarke was hanging out with friends in the early morning hours of Thursday, September 20th.
Surveillance video from the parking lot outside Cafe 27 on Jamaican Night shows a man walking through the crowd spraying pepper spray into the faces of at least two men.
Seconds later, an accomplice approaches one the men and rips a gold chain off of his neck.
During the incident, Clarke ran for safety. She fell and hit her head on a car's bumper.
Doctors have told her mother, Marjorie Crossfield, that Clarke will not survive.
"We have to stop the life support," Crossfield said. "It's what we have to do, which is hard."
Crossfield's eyes glow when she speaks of her youngest child. She says Clarke enjoyed her job with a security company, was beloved by her co-workers, spent time in Bible study and loved to volunteer with children each week.
"She's beautiful inside and out," Crossfield said. "An angel."
On Friday Broward Sheriff's investigators released additional surveillance video. It shows one of the men purchasing an item at the truck stop's convenience store two hours before the incident:
Detectives and Kimberlyn's family hope someone turns him in.
"I could kill him," Crossfield said. "I could kill him right now. That's how I feel."
Marjorie hopes the man who set the events in motion that led to her daughter's desperate condition is soon caught and brought to justice.
"It could be your mother," she said. "It could be your sister. It could be anybody. Please come forward. Don't be afraid."
Kimberlyn's mother said she and her family are praying for a miracle -- that Kimberlyn might wake up.
However, they realize the odds are not in their favor.
If you have any information on this crime call Broward County Crimestoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477).
