Las Vegas police say a shopper carrying a big-screen TV home from a Target on Thanksgiving was shot by a thief.
Authorities say the incident happened at about 9:45 p.m. Thursday.
Police Lt. David Gordon says the victim was carrying the TV at an apartment complex near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas when someone fired warning shots, prompting him to drop the appliance. Gordon says the robber snatched the TV and took it to a vehicle, and the victim tried to wrestle it back. That’s when the robber fired shots and hit the victim in the leg.
The shopper was taken to Sunrise Hospital with injuries that aren’t considered life-threatening. No arrests have been made. It’s unclear what happened to the TV.
“The gentleman let off about two rounds shooting the guy in his leg and he just hopped in the car and took off and he didn’t even get the TV if you can see it’s still sitting over there on the ground,” witness Samson Barnum told CBS affiliate KLAS.
Meanwhile, police in Utah say at least two people were knocked to the ground by a crowd of Wal-Mart shoppers jockeying for a $49 tablet computer. Police say store employees brought out a pallet of items wrapped in cellophane, and about 200 people rushed forward to grab the items as the workers cut the wrapper.
Police say neither person was seriously hurt in the incident Thursday night at a store in Clinton, about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City.
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