Bethlehem Township PA August 1 2020 Like many other retail stores reopening during the pandemic, workers at Cigars International have been balancing how to stay in business while keeping customers and employees safe. But on Friday, a simple request that a patron wear a mask while inside the Bethlehem Township store erupted in gunfire, leaving […]
Oklahoma County OK July 26 2020 A Walmart security guard has been charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon for shooting a fleeing shoplifting suspect on the Fourth of July. Jimmie Odell Watts Jr. was charged Friday with the felony in Oklahoma County District Court. He is accused of going too far when […]
LUMBERTON, N.C. July 25 2020 Lumberton Police are investigating after two women were killed in the parking lot of a Family Dollar Store on Friday afternoon. It happened just before 5 p.m. at the Family Dollar store at 1305 East 5th Street. Officers told ABC-affiliate WPDE that a man wearing a hoodie fired into multiple vehicles […]
Washington DC July 25 2020 CVS Pharmacy said it has terminated its contract with a private security company after an armed guard was seen on video detaining a shoplifting suspect outside a downtown Washington store and appeared to press his forearm onto the man’s neck. The 50-year-old man, who appeared to be unarmed, tried to speak […]
ROYAL PALM BEACH FL July 24 2020— A suburban Lake Worth man faces felony charges after he pulled a gun from his waistband and leveled it at a fellow Walmart shopper during an argument over face masks. The encounter served as a linchpin in the debate over whether store owners and officials should require people […]
WICHITA, Kan. July 12 2020 The Wichita Police Department arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of aggravated robbery and battery. At approximately 3:25 p.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to a bomb threat call involving a robbery at a business in the 1500 block of South Oliver. Officers were already nearby the business, saw the 13-year-old run from […]
Del City Oklahoma July 5th 2020 Del City police are investigating a scene Saturday where an armed security guard opened fire in a Walmart parking lot. The Walmart is located near the intersection of Southeast 15th Street and Sooner Road. Authorities said an off duty officer from another agency who was working as a security guard shot […]
Toledo OH July 4 2020 A Dick’s Sporting Goods loss prevention employee was fired from his job, according to a company statement Friday, after being arrested, though not charged by police for assaulting a man who was suspected of shoplifting food items. A video posted to Facebook Thursday showed the loss prevention employee, whose name […]
Goodlettsville TN June 28 2020 In the year before Dave Dukes killed a man who was trying to rob the store where he worked, he’d witnessed three other robberies. After each of them, Dukes, 28, would say later, he’d asked his supervisors at Dollar General to put in a security guard. But, according to Dukes, […]
ANTIOCH, Calif. June 27 2020-– A 34-year-old man died after getting into a physical confrontation with a Lucky Supermarkets store employee Wednesday night in Antioch, according to police. Shortly before 10 p.m., Antioch police and Contra Costa County Fire Protection District firefighters were dispatched to the store at 3190 Contra Loma Blvd. on a report […]