Friday, November 21, 2003
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Friday, November 21, 2003 |
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Fayetteville police still working on video of carjack suspect By JOHN MUNFORD Fayetteville police are still working to identify a man who forced his way into a woman’s truck at a convenience store last week, sparking a brief scuffle before she escaped unharmed and he took off with the vehicle. Police say the same man was caught on video robbing a convenience store in Spalding County roughly an hour and a half after he attacked the 26-year-old Fayetteville woman at the Flash Foods convenience store on East Lanier Avenue at 4 a.m. Nov. 13, police said. The first attempt to get a good photo of the suspect off the video from the Spalding heist was unsuccessful, according to police. But detectives planned to use an area college professor who has special equipment that could produce a useable photo, said Lt. Beverly Trainor of the Fayetteville Police Department. The suspect was described as a black male, 6-feet-1-inch tall, 230 pounds with a black shirt and blue jeans, police said. The man forced his way into the woman’s truck right after she parked at the Flash Foods parking lot, police said. The woman tried to lock her door, but the attacker forced his way in before she could do so, according to police. The victim then briefly fought with the man before exiting the vehicle unharmed, Trainor said. “She kicked him and he kicked her.” Detectives have also sent off fingerprint evidence to be processed at the state crime lab which may help identify the suspect. The woman’s truck, a Ford F-250, was found the next day in the parking lot of a hotel in Jonesboro by an officer there, police said. The truck was not damaged and nothing was missing, Trainor said, and it is not believed the suspect was staying at that hotel. The vehicle that was taken in the Spalding County incident was later involved in a hit-and-run in East Point, Trainor added.
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