Michigan woman faces charges for opening fire on suspected Home Depot shoplifters
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14 OCT 2015 AT 08:02 ET
As a suspected shoplifter fled from an Auburn Hills store with his get-away driver, Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez is accused of firing shots, flattening a tire on the vehicle. Now the 46-year-old Clarkston woman is charged with a crime. She was arraigned on a misdemeanor count of reckless use, handling or discharge of a firearm in…
DETROIT — As a suspected shoplifter fled from an Auburn Hills store with his get-away driver, Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez is accused of firing shots, flattening a tire on the vehicle.
Now the 46-year-old Clarkston woman is charged with a crime.
She was arraigned on a misdemeanor count of reckless use, handling or discharge of a firearm in 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills Tuesday, and a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf, officials said.
Duva-Rodriguez, who holds a concealed pistol license, was in the parking lot of a Home Depot around 2 p.m. on Oct. 6 when a store employee attempted to stop a man pushing a cart of stolen merchandise out of the store, police said. The suspect got into a Kia Rondo driven by another man.
Duva-Rodriguez is accused of shooting at the tires of the vehicle as it took off in the "misguided attempt to disable the vehicle to stop two reported shoplifters," a news release issued by the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office and the Auburn Hills Police Department said.
"If this is proven, I find it very disturbing that someone would take out their gun in a busy parking lot and shoot at the tires of a passing car," Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper said in a statement. "Once fired, the bullet could have easily ricocheted or fragmented and injured or killed someone else. It would have been much more helpful for her to take out her cellphone and shoot pictures of the shoplifter's license plate."
Nobody was injured in the shooting. |
