3 males carjack woman in Dollar Tree parking lot on Christmas Eve, return to store hours later in armed robbery attempt: Cops

Memphis police said three males carjacked a woman in a Dollar Tree parking lot on Christmas Eve — and then returned to the scene of the crime just hours later and tried robbing two people inside the same Dollar Tree store.

Police said the trio are still wanted, WREG-TV reported.

What are the details?

Memphis police said officers responded at 12:45 p.m. to a carjacking at a Dollar Tree in the 1200 block of Getwell Road.

Officers were told the victim parked her car when three unknown armed males approached her and demanded the keys to her black Audi A3. Police said the suspects took the victim’s vehicle and fled westbound on Rhodes — and the driver of a gold Mercedes, which also was taken in a carjacking, followed the Audi.

But it was Christmas Eve, after all — and the trio apparently was after a heftier gift tally.

Police said the same suspects came back to the same Dollar Tree at 5:36 p.m. on the same day and tried to rob at gunpoint two victims inside the store. Police posted surveillance video from inside the Dollar Tree showing the armed robbery attempt.

Police said the males fled the store in an unknown direction, and no arrests have been made.

Police added that those with information about this incident should call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH to leave anonymous information or submit a tip at http://www.crimestopmem.org. Police added that tipsters may be eligible for cash rewards if arrests are made.

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How are folks reacting?

Nearly 800 commenters and counting have weighed in on WREG's story on the crime spree published Thursday by Yahoo News. Here's what a few of them had to say:

• "These ‘kids’ live in a different society where the rules and values of our society do not apply," one commenter said. "And by ‘our society’ I mean working, building, trying-to-do-our-best type. Physically we share the same time and space, but we cannot be further apart. This will not end well for our country."
• "I'm senior and carry," another commenter said. "I never thought about carrying 25 years ago."
• "They are someone's children, and they are out of control," another commenter observed. "I'm sure they know what they are doing; they don't know what the results and jail time will be. This is a new generation of young people, and the way they think, they don't value themselves or anyone, they don't believe in a future or been taught to plan and make goals in life and try to be a better person than the generation before them."

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