Louis
Campbell, a Wal-Mart security guard and Harris County Sheriff’s deputy, shot
and killed 27-year old Shelly Frey in the parking lot of a Houston, Texas
area Wal-Mart in front of her two children as she attempted to leave the
premises. She had been caught, with two other women, on camera stealing items
from the store and hiding them in their purses.
According
to Campbell,
after chasing Frey and the other two women to their car, he opened the door and
commanded Frey to get out. But she refused, and then began to drive away while
the deputy was standing between the open door and the driver’s seat. He felt
that she was trying to run him over, and so he fired the deadly shot into the
car which hit Frey in the neck.
The
family is upset about her death, and has responded by saying that she was
stealing because of the financial difficulties she has had due to her 2-year
old daughter having sickle cell anemia. “Why couldn’t you just shoot the tire,
shoot the window?” said her mother Sharon Wilkerson. “Was it that serious?” She
added that even if her daughter had committed a crime, she did not deserve to
die and she worries now for her two young grandchildren.
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