Ohio Couple Forced To Shop At Wal-Mart At Gunpoint
Police Later Chase Car In 100 MPH Pursuit
POSTED: 11:46 am EST January 27,
2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two men were taken into custody Thursday morning after they were accused of forcing a woman to go shopping as her boyfriend waited in the parking lot. A man was coming home from work at about 2 a.m. when two men approached with guns drawn, WCMH-TV reported.Police said the men told the alleged victim, Jeremy Schumacher, that they wanted to go shopping. The men checked Jeremy's wallet, found his girlfriend's credit cards and forced her to come outside.The men allegedly took the woman, later identified as Pamela Logan, to the bank to make a withdrawal and then drove her to a Wal-Mart where they sent her inside with a shopping list, Anderson reported.Although the gunmen waited outside the store with Schumacher, 26, Logan, 26, told a Wal-Mart manager that she needed police.As officers approached, the gunmen forced Schumacher to drive away from the store and led police on a 100 mph chase along Morse Road, Anderson reported."We saw the cop pull in the parking lot," Schumacher said. "Driving down Morse Road and saw cops like there was no tomorrow, coming at us."The chase ended in a parking lot on Belcher Drive, where the street came to an end."When we got here, the guy threw the gun in my lap," Schumacher said. The cops were all with shotguns. (The gunman) says, 'Tell the cops it's your gun.'"Eventually, the men, later identified as Stanley Carr Jr. and Hamp Allen, were taken into custody, Anderson reported. The men, who are both 18, were charged with aggravated robbery.
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