Police have arrested a suspect in a violent theft at a Walmart in Oldham County.
According to an arrest report, 26-year-old Shampayle Strother was taken into custody on Monday afternoon at the Oldham County Library on a number of charges, including robbery.
The incident in question occurred Thursday afternoon at the Walmart on New Moody Lane in La Grange.
Police said Strother got away with several pieces of jewelry after physically assaulting an 89 year-old Walmart employee while she was showing him some of the jewelry.
The employee received a lump on her head along with cuts and bruises.
Police say surveillance video showed Strother run into a stairwell in a nearby Best Western, where officers believe he changed clothes.
Witnesses who knew Strother came forward to identify him, according to police, and a tip led to his arrest in the parking lot of the Oldham County Library on Monday.
Police say when they found him, he was wearing gold necklaces that had been stolen from the Walmart.
He is currently being held in the Oldham County Detention Center, and is charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree wanton endangerment and fourth-degree assault.
Source: WDRB
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