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Women Arrested For Pepper Spraying Cashier To Steal Wigs
WOMAN ARRESTED FOR PEPPER SPRAY ATTACK
Man Wrongly Convicted Of Murder Released From Prison After 23 Years
One of three women caught on surveillance pepper-spraying a cashier so that they could rob a beauty supply store of wigs has been arrested.
The incident recorded a preg- nant woman, another woman carrying a baby, and a third woman, seen in now-viral secu- rity footage, robbing the Beauty Plug store in Tamarac, Florida, Local 10 reports. In the shocking video, three women can be seen walking into the beauty supply and grabbing a few items as if
they were making a purchase. But then one woman pulls out pepper spray and attacks the young cashier before the women flee the store. The cashier screams for her mother, who comes out to chase down the robbers, but they were already
gone.
“Tonight we experienced a
horrific event. 3 girls came into our store attacked my daughter with pepper spray and stole multiple lace wigs,” the owner wrote in an Instagram post.
parole in 2001, but always maintained his innocence.
A decade on, Georgia Inno- cence Project (GIP) took up his case, with DNA testing showing that a ski mask worn during the murder and rob- bery had Hercules Brown's DNA on it.
Brown was in prison by this point, having been con- victed of killing two people in a convenience store in 2000.
GIP petitioned for a new trial, but the case was rejected in 2014. GIP subsequently ap- pealed the decision, and last month, a judge ordered that a new trial should take place after prosecutors withheld critical evidence in Inman's trial.
Upon his release, Inman - who is now 43 - said: "I spent 23 years behind bars for something I didn’t do.
A man in the U. S. who was wrongly convicted of murder has been released from prison after 23 years.
Devonia Inman was greeted by his mom and step- dad after walking free from Augusta State Medical Prison in Georgia yesterday (Monday December, 20).
Inman was just 20 when he was arrested for the 1998 killing of Donna Brown.
Brown was a 40-year-old night manager at a Taco Bell who was shot in the face as she left the restaurant with a bag of cash.
Inman was arrested based on the accounts of eye wit- nesses, who later admitted to lying.
He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of
DEVONIA INMAN BEING RELEASED
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