Shoplifter pulls gun on MS. Walmart security
MCCOMB, Miss. Feb 10 2018
A 17-year-old shoplifting suspect is accused of pulling a gun to get away from loss prevention officers at a Walmart in McComb, police said.
The incident began about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday when someone reported seeing a man taking gym shorts from the men’s department and trying to hide them in a backpack, police said. When he tried to leave the store, two store security guards tried to detain him, but the man got away after he pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at the officers, police said.
The man jumped into the passenger seat of a 1999 Honda with an Amite County license plate and took off, police said.
Deputies with the Amite County Sheriff’s Department and Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers later found the Honda parked at a home in the 4000 block of New Hope Road in Gloster and towed it to the McComb Police Department, authorities said.
The 18-year-old female driver was detained for questioning, police said.
Charles Connor Deschamps, 17, turned himself in to police after officers identified him as a the suspect in the case, authorities said. Deschamps is charged with armed robbery and was being held Friday at the Pike County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
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