Shoppers at the Belmont Walmart ended up face-to-face with a man determined to get away Thursday afternoon.
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They say he crashed his SUV into their cars and a police cruiser before officers chased him.
Dawn Adkins was frustrated after another driver forced her car backward while still in park.
“What are you doing?” Adkins recalled.
She pulled into her parking spot and saw three cars behind the SUV that was in front of her.
“It has scared me a little bit,” she said.
The driver of the SUV backed up and hit at least one unmarked police cruiser.
He then drove toward her.
“He rammed the car, my car, and pushed me all the way out of the parking place,” Adkins said.
Her car was forced about 10 feet backward.
The SUV sped off leading police on a chase.
Several minutes later, Evelyn West finished shopping and noticed her Cadillac had moved.
“I didn’t know anything,” West said.
She learned her car was one of five, including a police car, damaged by a suspect desperate to get away.
“I was so shocked. Oh, I was so hurt. The car is damaged,” West said.
Both women said they were fortunate no one was hurt.
Police have not released information on any arrests or why the suspect was so desperate to get away.
An SUV crashed into a creek Thursday afternoon near Hoskins and Hovis roads in northwest Charlotte
An SUV crashed into a creek Thursday afternoon near Hoskins and Hovis roads in northwest Charlotte
An SUV crashed into a creek Thursday afternoon near Hoskins and Hovis roads in northwest Charlotte
An SUV crashed into a creek Thursday afternoon near Hoskins and Hovis roads in northwest Charlotte
An SUV crashed into a creek Thursday afternoon near Hoskins and Hovis roads in northwest Charlotte
An SUV crashed into a creek Thursday afternoon near Hoskins and Hovis roads in northwest Charlotte