The incident took place on June 28, around 1:50 a.m. when a horde of 40 to 50 black male and female teens barged into a Macon, Ga. Walmart, apparently on a rampage, pulling merchandise from shelves as they ran through the store.
The store sits next to a Lowe’s, just east of Interstate 475 in one of the area’s most frequented shopping districts. The teen leader of the mob stopped and spoke to an employee and “stated that this was a planned event and that they had planned to see how much damage they could cause,” said the police, according to ABC News.
The alleged ring-leader, Kharron Green was arrested when he re-entered the store after the mob of teens had run out, looking for his cell phone that had fallen out of his pocket during the trashing incident. According to the official police report, Green and his cohorts ran through the store “destroying merchandise and vandalizing the property,” Upon arriving at the trashed Walmart, the deputy noted that one aisle was “destroyed and coated with broken merchandise” and that the “length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, been destroyed, and turned over and thrown about.”
Video also shows a group of the teens pulling a customer from an electric wheelchair, and dragging him to the floor.
Green first told police he had nothing to do with the vandalism, saying he did not know anything about what had happened in the store and that he did not know anyone involved.” But when his parents were called to the store and viewed the videotapes of the incident, Green recanted his first statement and admitted he was the person in the video.
Green refused to squeal on his fellow marauders, only saying the group “had all come from a party.” Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said Monday, “Hopefully we can identify the others.” He added, Hopefully, it’s not a pattern of behavior.”
Bibb County Sheriff’s office Lt. Sean DeFoe told ABC News on Thursday that a store manager estimated the damage to be around $2,000. But a spokesman for Walmart declined to comment on the damages, saying only that they were working with law enforcement on their ongoing investigation.
