LP Agent Shot Wrestling For Gun
Bloomingdale, Ill. June 15 2018
Police in Illinois say that a store loss prevention officer was shot while trying to disarm a man who pulled out a handgun after being told that he had to leave the business.
23-year-old Keonte Griffin was approached inside the Burlington Coast Factory after he had urinated into a bottle inside the men’s dressing room. He reportedly kicked it over and the loss prevention agent was called to the area.
Griffin was escorted from the store and when he attempted to return to the store, officials say the security agent barred his entry, and Griffin pulled out a gun and shot him in the shoulder.
A scuffle ensued between the men as each fought for the gun during which Griffin was shot through his hand and thigh.
Officers with the Bloomingdale Police Department arriving on the scene found Griffin and the loss prevention agent sitting with gunshot wounds.
Additional law enforcement and medical personnel were immediately dispatched to the Burlington Coat Factory in Stratford Square Mall in Bloomingdale.
Griffin is charged with one count of Felony Aggravated Battery with a Firearm and Felony Possession of a Weapon by a Felon. His bond was set at $750,000 Wednesday.
Griffin’s next court appearance is scheduled for June 19.
In May of 2017, at a Burlington Coat Factory store in Woodbridge, Virginia, a loss prevention was stabbed to death trying to stop a shoplifter at the Potomac Mills Mall.
Larry Donnell Drumgole, 44, was taken to a hospital, where he died as a result of his injuries, police said.
Jamel Carlos Kingsbury, 35 was charged with murder in the incident.
