Shooting wounds one in Indiana Walmart parking lot

Occurred May 19, 2013.

Scene of shooting at Hammond Walmart

There has been a shooting in the parking lot of a Walmart Supercenter in Hammond, Indiana, following a vehicular crash involving three cars.  Multiple shots were fired, injuring one woman.

The Walmart never closed.

From an article:

The shooting happened in the store's parking lot at 1100 Fifth Ave. about 2:37 p.m. following a crash, police said. It was unclear if the motorists knew each other. 

A 22-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet and has non-life-threatening injuries, Hammond police Lt. Richard Hoyda said. Another unidentified person was treated at a local hospital for injuries suffered in the crash. 

Hoyda said officers found multiple shell casings on the ground.  

Officers were on the scene sorting out the details of how the shooting unfolded, Hoyda said Sunday afternoon. It appears one of the vehicles drove off toward Chicago. 

No arrests had been made as of Sunday afternoon. 

An employee of the store said the Walmart Supercenter remains open while police continue investigating the shooting.

(a related article)

In December of 2009, there was another shooting at a Walmart in Hammond (maybe the same Walmart?), where two suspects shot and murdered a man in his van, in the parking lot.

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Armed shoplifters threaten Walmart security guards with gun in Kansas

Occurred April 8, 2013.


A group of shoplifters, including three adults and a child, were caught by security at a Wichita, Kansas Walmart store.  When confronted, one of the adult shoplifters pulled out a concealed handgun and threatened the security guards before fleeing with the stolen merchandise.

Luckily, no shots were fired.

From an article:

Wichita police say a group of alleged shoplifters, including one who reportedly was armed, whose photos were posted Tuesday on the agency’s social media pages have been identified, thanks to phone calls from the public. 

Messages from the department published on Facebook and Twitter late Wednesday morning thanked the public for their help in the month-old case. Police on Tuesday used social media to spur leads in the April 8 theft and aggravated assault in which a man wielding a handgun threatened two Wal-Mart security guards before fleeing the store with two other adults and a child. 

No arrests had been made as of Wednesday afternoon, Wichita police Detective Chad Beard said. The case remains under investigation, he said. 

The theft occurred around 10:20 p.m. on April 8 at the Wal-Mart at 6110 W. Kellogg Drive. According to police and a surveillance photo, a man wearing a gray shirt, black jacket and pants allegedly pulled the weapon after the guards confronted the group when they tried to leave the store with stolen merchandise. They then fled in a silver four-door Pontiac, according to police. 

Among items stolen were men’s tennis shoes, a pocket knife and a pump action BB gun, according to a police report.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/05/14/2802766/police-seek-publics-help-in-identifying.html#storylink=cpy

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Man shot in the back while fleeing into Indiana Walmart

Occurred May 6, 2013.

Scene of shooting at Evansville Walmart

Two men, 24-year old Isaiah Green and 30-year old Anthony Tavon Burns got into an altercation, which ended in the parking lot of a Walmart in Evansville, Indiana.  When Green went to his car and retrieved a gun, Burns tried to flee into the Walmart but was shot in the lower back, from behind.

An off-duty police officer, who had been in a check-out lane, responded to help Burns.  Green was later arrested at a nearby apartment complex.

Burns was taken to a local hospital and will apparently live.

From an article:

Cullum says the victim, Anthony Tavon Burns, 30, attempted to get away from the suspect by going inside the store at the Market entrance, but he was shot in the back as he was running. 

Burns was taken to Deaconess Hospital. His condition is not being released.
Officers say Green and another person left in a vehicle soon after the shooting. 

There was an officer shopping at the checkout who heard the commotion and went outside to secure the crime scene and get information on the vehicles. 

Another officer located the getaway vehicle in the Arbors at Eastland on Old Boonville Highway. That's where Green was taken into custody. 

Investigators say he went to an apartment early Monday morning to drop off some belongings. 

Cullum tells 14 News that police have heard two different stories of how it all started last night. The woman in the are with Burns told that Green's car cut them off on the Lloyd and followed them to Walmart, while he says Green told police that the altercation began after Burns stole money from him earlier in the day.   

Cullum says police believe the suspect and victim did know each other prior to the shooting. 

"We're not sure really which version is true, whether it was just a road rage or a robbery, but at this point, it doesn't really matter because the way the incident unfolded at the Walmart, there was no justification for what Mr. Green did. So, he's going to face the same charges regardless of how it all started," Cullum says. 

Green is now in the Vanderburgh County Jail on no bond, facing charges of attempted murder with a firearm and criminal recklessness.

HERE is security camera footage.

A related article, with eyewitness statements.

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Gunman robs Tulsa Walmart

Occurred May 8, 2013.

A man with a semi-auto handgun successfully robbed a Walmart in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

From an article, with an image of the suspect:

The man entered the Walmart at 2019 E. 81st St. and went to the Money Center, where he showed the teller a black semiautomatic pistol and demanded money. The teller complied, and the man fled in a white or light-colored four-door vehicle.  

The amount of money he fled with was not disclosed.  

Police describe the man as a black, 30 to 37 years old, about 6 feet 1 inch tall and 200 pounds. He was last seen wearing glasses, a black cap, a white button-up long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans. 

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Oregon Walmart robbed at gunpoint

Occurred May 10, 2013.

Scene of armed robbery by gunman at Eugene Walmart

A masked man entered a Walmart in Eugene, Oregon, and robbed it at gunpoint, successfully fleeing.

From an article:

The suspect, armed with what he purported to be a firearm, threatened one of the store’s clerks in the middle of hleping [sic] a customer.

When the suspect fled the store, he ran southbound around the east side of Walmart and scaled the chain-link fence separating Walmart from Randy Pape Beltline.  

The suspect dodged Beltline’s westbound rush-hour traffic, climbed over the center divider, dodged the eastbound rush-hour traffic, and entered the front passenger side of an awaiting get-away vehicle. 

Once the suspect entered the SUV the driver fled east on Beltline.

Surveillance footage just minutes prior to the robbery shows the getaway vehicle traveling east on Beltline before slowing and parking on the south shoulder, directly across from where the suspect would later cross the fence and Beltline. 

This is the same Walmart that, a month before, had a man in the parking lot shooting at lights.


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Armed robbery in South Carolina Walmart parking lot

Occurred April 30, 2013.


A woman was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Walmart in Anderson, South Carolina, by a man and woman.  The suspects were later captured.

From an article:

Authorities say it happened around 3:30 p.m. at the Liberty Highway store when the victim was robbed at gunpoint. 

They say person got into their vehicle and followed the alleged robbers and gave a description to police, who then responded. 

The driver, a male, jumped out of the car and was arrested at the mall.  A woman was later arrested.

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Gunman robs woman at gunpoint after slashing her tires in Wisconsin Walmart parking lot

Occurred February 6, 2012.


Last year, a man and woman slashed the tire of a woman shopping at a Walmart in Onalaska, Wisconsin.  When the woman came out and discovered the tire, the offenders offered to help her fix the tire as a ruse.  Later, though, they choked the driver, threatened her with a gun and a knife, and robbed her.

Both offenders have since been caught and charged.

From an article:

Jennifer Rondeau-Wilbur, 33, of La Crosse also will serve two years on probation. 

According to court records, the victim exited the Walmart in Onalaska on the night of Feb. 6, 20120 to discover her tire was flat; her passenger, Rondeau-Wilbur, told her a friend would fix the tire in exchange for a ride. 

That man, Jacob Foley, later choked the driver, demanded money and threatened to shoot Rondeau-Wilbur while Kyle Wedekind broke the car window and threatened the driver with a knife, according to complaints. 

Keri Basham, who admitted driving a vehicle for Wedekind, was charged with robbery with use of force as a party to the crime. Rondeau-Wilbur was charged with the same crime on Thursday but pleaded guilty to reduced charges. 

Foley was charged with armed robbery, Wedekind with robbery with use of force.
At the time of the crime, Rondeau-Wilbur was dating Wedekind, who her attorney called manipulating and controlling. 

Probation will allow Rondeau-Wilbur, who apologized for her role in the robbery, to undergo drug treatment.

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