Shoplifter Sky Bailey Gray, age 24, of Galena, Missouri, got violent when the elderly Walmart “greeter” asked to see her receipt, because she didn’t have one. The female employee ended up with a broken shoulder.
Shoplifter arrested for assault
Police actually bothered to track down Sky Bailey Gray and arrested the shoplifter on “suspicion of hitting a Walmart employee with a shopping cart while trying to steal, resulting in breaking the employee’s arm.”
The incident happened at a Walmart in Springfield, around 9:10 p.m. on December 6. She probably would have gotten away with the retail theft if it wasn’t for an injured employee.
Officers with the Springfield Police Department got an initial call of “a robbery” at the Walmart. By the time they arrived, the shoplifter was gone.
— Kilgore Trout (@Kilgore73862013) January 13, 2023
According to the assault victim, “an elderly woman who was working as a door greeter,” she “asked to see the receipt of a woman who was leaving the store and placed her hand on the woman’s shopping cart.” Big mistake.
The shoplifter didn’t have a receipt to show so “attempted to pull the cart away from the door greeter, who grabbed the cart again.”
Police don’t say so but that could have been when her shoulder was broken. Instead, they blame it on what happened next. “In response, the woman pushed the cart into the door greeter, knocking her to the ground.”
Fractured right shoulder
By the time the unnamed greeter was examined at the hospital, they knew for sure that she had a “fractured right shoulder.” No matter how exactly she got it, the shoplifter was responsible.
The only thing police had to go on was the security footage. An alert officer “identified the woman as Gray by the star tattoo on her right hand.” It took until January 10 to round her up.
Once they had the shoplifter in cuffs down at the station, Gray “admitted to pushing the cart into the door greeter.” She claims she “did not intend to hurt her.” She knows the local laws as well as any public defender, probably through experience.
“She said that the door greeter touched her first and that she knew that Walmart employees were not allowed to touch shoplifters.”
The elderly greeter didn’t touch the person, she touched the Walmart property cart. Police wrote up a report charging her with two felonies. The shoplifter had enough in her cart to make it worth “one count of first-degree attempted robbery.”
Beating up an old lady gets special consideration, the other felony is “second-degree assault on a special victim.” Ms. Gray is due back in court bright and early at 8:30 a.m. on January 19. Then, she gets a criminal setting at 8:30 a.m. on Valentine’s day. Maybe the judge will give her a nice present.
— Kilgore Trout (@Kilgore73862013) January 10, 2023
