Shoplifting Suspect Pulls Gun on Police Officer at Walmart, on Video

What began out as alleged shoplifting changed into tried murder when an Ohio man pulled a gun on a police officer inside a Walmart Thursday … and the entire thing was caught on tape.

Watch this insane video … 21-year-old Shane Newman seems anxious, chewing on his gloved fingers whereas sitting inside Walmart’s loss prevention workplace. You can see him sneakily flip his again to the digital camera, and when he turns again round … he produces a gun.

While aiming the weapon at an officer off-camera, you possibly can hear what seems to be the clicking of Newman pulling the set off, however the gun by no means goes off.

Then, all hell breaks unfastened. The retailer’s loss prevention specialist dives on Newman, knocking the gun out of his fingers, earlier than the officer rushes in with a crushing knee to Newman’s midsection. Newman is then rapidly wrestled to the bottom.

According to native outlet WOIO-TV, Newman was charged with tried murder, felonious assault on a police officer, theft, drug possession and having a weapon below incapacity.

A girl Newman was apprehended with — 23-year-old Katerina Jeffrey — was reportedly charged with complicity to commit a theft.

19 News studies Newman was not allowed to personal or have a firearm resulting from a earlier felony conviction. They additionally report he was in possession of fifty blue capsules recognized as Molly — a.okay.a. MDMA.