Woman Shot Dead For Shoplifting At Walmart
Shelly Frey, 27, was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy at a Houston, TX., Walmart. The deputy was suspicious of Frey, saying he thought she was stealing from the store, reports UK Daily Mail.
Harris County Sheriff’s deputies said that Shelly Frey, Tisa Andrews and Yolanda Craig were shoplifting when they were stopped by Louis Campbell, a 26-year veteran of the force, who is employed as a security guard at Walmart.
Campbell said that the women dashed to their car, and when he went to open their car door, they drove away. Campbell then thought it was his duty to stop the perpetrators so he fired the deadly shot into the car which hit Frey in the neck.
Security at the store noticed the three women putting items into their purses and notified Campbell, who was working an extra job that night.
The three shoplifters tried to pay for some small items to serve as a cover for the ones they planned to steal.
Campbell opened Frey’s car door and told her to get out, after he chased her and the other two women to the car, but she refused, said officials.
Andrews started to drive away while the deputy was standing between the open door and the driver’s seat.
“She threw it in reverse and tried to run over the deputy,” said Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Deputy Thomas Gilliland.
Gilliland said, “He confronted the suspects at exit of the store before they left. One female wouldn’t stop, struck the deputy with her purse, ran off.” He added, “I think it knocked him off balance and, in fear of his life and being ran over, he discharged his weapon at that point.”
Officials said that there were two small children in the vehicle at the time of the incident, although they were not Frey’s, who is a mother of two.
“He was clearly marked in uniform as a Harris County deputy. And identified himself as the suspects were leaving the establishment,” said Gilliland regarding Campbell.
Even with Frey wounded, the women still fled, but they stopped at The Worthington at the Beltway apartments in the 1300 block of Greens Parkway. Frey was pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics arrived.
“Shelly was the perfect mom, perfect friend, perfect daughter,” said her father, Shelton Frey.
“Why couldn’t you just shoot the tire, shoot the window?” said her mother Sharon Wilkerson. “Was it that serious?”
Sharon said that even if Frey did shoplift, she didn’t deserve to die. She is now concerned for Frey’s children.
Andrews and Craig have both been charged with shoplifting. A small price to pay when their friend was shot to death.
As for deputy Campbell, he is on three days paid leave for standard protocol. The Harris County Sheriff’s Homicide Unit, Office of the Inspector General and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office will investigate this horrific incident. The case will go in front of a grand jury.
Walmart said in a statement:
“This is a tragic situation and we recognize this is a difficult time for all parties involved. We’re committed to working with law enforcement and providing any information we have as they determine the facts of the case. Because this is an active investigation, any specific details of the incident should come from law enforcement. We hire off duty officers to provide security to some of our stores. While we have policies in place for our associates to disengage from situations that might put them or others in harm’s way, off-duty officers working at a WM store are authorized to act in accordance with their department’s code of conduct.”
Obviously not the perfect shoplifter
This is murder or at least manslaughter. The BS spouted about being almost run over is exactly what anyone covering tracks would expect.
The officer shot into a car that hadn't just committed an armed robbery, but instead of a heap of cheap crap in Walmart. I doubt they would have been driving a stolen car for such a lucrative job, so maybe the idiot, if he could, should have just written down the license.
Shoplifters was dumb, cop was dumber……
Shoplifting might be worth 10 lasses(with a bullwhip) in the public square but not death. Houston pigs have a history of this stuff going back to shooting a teenager in the head for car theft to teaching Jose Torres how to swim brays bayou with handcuffs on. Thai Police are good morally and currupt when needed a good combination that is in the long run thousands of times better than Houston or anywhere else in the Police State of America.
WHO CARES ABOUT THIS NONSENSE, TRY AND RUN OVER A COP AND THINGS CAN AND WILL GO WRONG. SO THE DRIVER DID NOT GET SHOT, ONE OF HER CONFEDERATES DID, HARD CHEESE.
for life now has become nothing but a commodity nowonder the officer valued more the commodities the woman shoplifeted more than the her life…yes the commodities can be replaced, refunded but what about the life he took away….
Wake up America! All of your guns and your relaxed gun laws are killing your people! This person didn't deserve to be killed even if she was a shoplifter! What do you mean Kurt, the police fired his weapon in defense of his life. Bullshit! When the shoplifter fled, the cop should have radioed for back-up. The cop should be charged with manslaughter! I just don't understand the gun culture in America, and I'm glad I live in Canada. We may have to put up with colder weather, but it's a lot safer up here without all of those guns!
however much a person can shoplift commodities from a shop, can it be worth it to take a life for securing the interest of the goods…Oh! Wallmart can call this cop a hero? how much does Wallmart benefit from the life that was taken away just for mere commodities.Wallmart goes to the extreme of even saying"we are committed to working with law enforcement and providing any information we have as they determine the facts of the case…"What fact does wallmart have to give to justify this cruel act…considering the reputation that wallmart has had for over the years this was the least of a statement that coul come from them…After all yes determining its an investigation but probable we are run out of our human values to even consider an investigation on a murder for shoplifting…there were other possible measures that could have been taken…Does it appear to Wallmart that all they should advertise on their stores that "AT WALLMARTALL SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE SHOT DEAD"!
"WHEN SHOPLIFTING AT WALLMART YOU WILL BE SUBJECTED TO BE SHOT DEAD..
the cop sai.."HE SHOT HER BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THE GIRL WAS STEALING FROM THE SHOP" This makes it that "WHEN SUSPECTED OF STEALING FROM WALLMART YOU WILL BE SHOT."Guys WALLMART MAYBE JUST ANOTHER KILLER STORE..
when you do bad things bad things happen. When you drive drunk you don't deserve to die but sometimes it happens. Take chances and act stupid and you can expect trouble.
Looks like her make-up was perfect when she died.
wait, so with a bad cop (off-duty), so is a good Kelly?
That's one less.
I bet some guy or guys are going to miss those lips.
I cant believe all the people on here who are defending this woman. she and her friends were stealing! they hit the deputy and ran away. then they tried to run him over with their car and yet you bleeding hearts types think he was mean to shoot into the car. crime doesn't pay and if youre going to be out committing crimes, you face the chance of getting either arrested or killed don't you? no wonder crime is so high since everyone seems to blame the police or the businesses rather than holding the criminals responsible. and she was perfect? come on, she was a friggin theif at the very least. what kind of mother of two children goes shop-lifting with her friends? certainly not a perfect one. and please stop with the racial accusations here. if youre black or white you deserve whatever you get if youre out committing crimes. time for some serious crime reform laws and crack-downs. if everyone thought they might get shot when stealing, perhaps theft would sharply decline.
respect to Mike Switz 10xx! that cop was off Dutty, he had to go home to sleep, not to kill a woman for some cosmetics, he had to leave the guards from Walmart to do their job. Probably felt frustrated that he was not considered. Must pay for his crime! Stupidity and weapons can had innocent victims, it is good that children were protected by God. Down Princess Doughty life is not a movie, those kids have no mother, F off! Maybe she stole to give food to children, you can not know exactly, so you can't judge her! f off
there not going to do nothin to the deputey.
1. Shoplifting
2. Striking an officer.
3. running away
4. Trying to reverse over the policeman.
Perfect mother?
@Jon Murdock – Be careful of what you wish on others – You'll more than likely end up there yourself with your mentality of defending criminals against the police who are paid to protect and serve and that is just what he did. You sound like an ex con @Jono Pollonais People like you make me sick!
Campbell then thought it was his duty to stop the perpetrators so he fired the deadly shot into the car which hit Frey in the neck. Forgive me, but wouldn't shooting the car tyres or even the driver been a better way of stopping them than by wildly firing at passengers?
How Is the cop So stupid..firing off when There are Small children…how disgusting Is That…these Americana really need to learn to keep d god damn guns Under control..america has d worse Law regarding d gun..obama needs to work on it
My god people…. Stop it! Someone died! You don't know the full story, even after reading this article. You should have nothing but good christian sympathy and empathy for her poor family.
I lived in Houston for 6 mths (in 2001) – shootings by coppers were common. I remember 3 in 1 week – hardly caused a ripple.
I was responding to some of the comments posted by fucked up people attached to the article. It makes Herald Sun comments look tame!
I didn't meam for this to go on facebook…. I commented on an article on a US new site, and it automatically linked to my facebook.
The US police force are far too quick to use lethal force, just like there goverment. this was a Mother that lost her life for stealing, yes she was in the wrong but there are better ways to deal with it than kill her. Her children are now going to grow up without there mother and for what? he will no doubt get off scott free on the grounds of self defence while her family live with the pain for the rest of there lives……god bless America eh!
Don't guess she'll do that again.
You bloody Americans and your guns. What the hell is a shop security guard doing carrying a gun for?
Can't blame them for not wanting to pay for that worthless crap W-Mart sells.
That's Texas, folks!
Why is this story still running, this happened weeks ago. The woman who got shot is guilty by association. If you do not want to get shot, don´t steal or rob, and hang out with people who do. End of story!
He shouldn't have a gun in the first place!
I hope everyone understands the real situation. Frey and her friends tried to shoplift, one then hit Campbell with her purse while the girls ran to their car, when he went to confront Frey and her friends, one of them who was driving reversed with the car door open, smacking the officer backwards, before Campbell shot towards the car. Those girls could've easily rolled the car over Campbell when he was knocked backwards by the car door.
Of course, no one deserved to die, but tell me now, who wouldn't panic?
I don't mum's don't shop lift and they obey orders. she should have just stopped
This Woman was a Thief and she alson tried to run over a Cop with her car. She was WRONG and got CAPPED for Actin like a THUG!
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Her Friends should have gotten CAPPED too!
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If they hadn't of been shoplifting she would be alive. Bottom line is she shoplifted, they tried to get away and she lost her life. Wonder if what they were stealing was worth it now? If you can't do the time don't do the crime. Bottom line it is her fault she is dead.
People, even criminals, all instantly turn 'perfect' when they die (sarcasm heavy)…you never see 'has was a total lowlife who cheated and stole and kicked his dog' in an obit…that being said, shooting into a car with children…could this guy not move out of the way…maybe not a 'tragedy' (but shoplifters aren't murderers or child abusers – I'm sure some of these commenters have shoplifted before, me not included
), but if the kids had've been hit…I think the response was over the top…
shame real sname dead at 27 for shop lifting.
who send her shoplifting? the botfriend? the hubby? the perfect father? society?
i wonder?
The officer fired his weapon twice into a vehicle with children inside. I'm sorry I worked loss prevention in one of the worst K-Marts in Dallas, and under no circumstance do you chase a fleeing suspect. The family filed a wrongfull death lawsuit against Wal Mart and the Security Co. It's officer like this one that give Law Enforcement a bad name…. my prayers go out to all involved.
it's intersting Walmart have a policy of employing off-duty police. That wouldn't be allowed with many police forces (although many police may practice this around the world to top up income). Police work is a full time activity and having another job on the side must undermine their capacity and alertness for their 'fomral' job, and if over-tired and in possession of a weapon errors of judgement are liable to occur. Maybe Walmart and authorities shuold review that policy, if it is actually practiced.
In PNG anyone can hire an "on duty" policeman! One better.
In PNG anyone can hire an "on duty" policeman! One better.
yes, Lrigimban Manu despite efforts by some police chiefs, its almost standard practice for police in PNG to be moonlighting, or even more routinely operating as private hired guns, often for pretty unscrupulous operators (logging companies etc)…
And a perfect thief…! The officer in uniform was the perfect officer who did his duty trying to save his life..!
Guess she won't do that again………..
Sifting carefully through the story as presented here, the claim the women tried to run the guy over seems doubtful. Did he get knocked down? Are there injuries, witnesses, footage? And even if they did knock him down (and there's no suggestion they actually did), he fired at the car as it sped AWAY! He was not in any danger at this point, so he can't claim self-defence. I think it will become clear that he made a poor decision here, probably angry and feeling disrespected and possibly lightly assaulted by one of them (handbag) he rationalised the shooting. US gun culture looks so gutless and ridiculous to us over here. Real men don't use guns: it's always the insecure ones most drawn to them. Its like you are victims of your own movie industry.
The person at the wheel should be charged with murder , it's her fault that this person died , although none of them had a conventional weapon, the vehicle was used as such , I pray for the family and the now orphaned children , this was an unnecessary death , what is wrong with people today that for some as ridiculous as "makeup" you would place your life at risk , either way whatever the reason for their crime , this is a valuable and very painful lesson to all who wish to live outside the law.
you racist dogs , thank god I'm not American you gun crazy racist crackers deserve everything you get ( ie a crazy screwed up society carry on killing each other , it only means less vermin in the world ) If she was white like me she, d still be alive!
Guns should be banned PERIOD, I mean if he didn't have a gun on him then he would of handled the situation differently! she didn't deserve to die! no one does.
What would you do, if someone steals your backyard leprechaun, smiles and waives at you goodbye, got into a car and drove away. what would you do? while you are watching your favorite tv show.
So, in the interest of decent reporting, it seems she was shot for trying to run over and possibly kill the deputy. The deputy seems guilty for not seeing that she had kids in the car and letting her rob his family of their husband/father and breadwinner. The lesson here is the wages of sin is death.
If only she hadn't been shot, she may have come up with a cure for cancer.
As an Irish citizen living in a contry where the police apart from special units are unarmed and where security in stores are unarmed, I am finding it difficult to comprehend the savagery and venality of the execution of a "suspected" thief by a gung-ho off duty policeman. But I am even more apalled by the racist and barbaric comments about the killing, particularly in view of the fact that in civilised, democratic countries unlike the USA, a person is considered innocent of a crime until and unless 'proven guilty' in a court of law. One of your respondents, a Dawn Doughy Davidson who from her facebook introduction one might get a sense that she is an intelligent caring individual, deliberately ignores these basis facts of civilised law and proceeds to tear into Shelly Frey like a savage animal. If Ms Davidson is an example of typical American 'lady' – god help us all.
Someone is dead here…… its the kids who will have to pay for the small mistake their mom made…. respect that…. its upto the jury now to determine if the police officer's action was justifiable.
if she was white all theses comments would be different.
Do you really believe the deputy managed to save his own life only by shooting one of the passengers? Do you really believe a couple of shoplifters were so desperate to escape prosecution they were willing to escalate the situation to murder? I guess if the deputy and his friends/work colleagues say it happened that way, well then it must of happened that way.
I was confused; saw the headline but thought the accompanying picture was for a circus.
could only happen in America!
Wait wait wait. He was afraid he was going to be run over so he shot a passenger? I'm not saying he had the clearest of heads at the time, but the passenger? With kids in the car?
I wonder what sort of footage they have of this incident, because if the driver of the vehicle was, in fact, not trying to run over the security guard but was in fact simply fleeing the scene, then there is 'bout to be a sh! t storm….and rightly so.
Why is it that criminals when killed are always described as a perfect child, good kid, great parent, cared for others, love able…….. If they break the law, have no respect for authority, then I'm sorry they are a worthless piece of crap. Strop blaming the LEO for this so called horrific death. Blame the shoplifters. If they weren't shoplifting then the so called perfect daughter would still be alive and to the idiot that said " why couldn't they shoot a window or the tire??" Are you serious?? What's shooting a window going to do other then cause a bullet to hit an innocent bystander ??
It is amazing how only "the good die young." Always seems like the peaches in society get shot for no reason.
The security officer who shot Frey must be a an uneducated guy. Whoever taught him to take such an action in the face of a woman shoplifting problem. He deserved to be shot himself so he wud learn to respect the Life Of others.
This smells. It sounds like this guy got his adrenaline up because the one lady "hit him with her bag and knocked him off balance" He was so afraid of getting run over, he shot the PASSENGER? I think with his adrenaline going he got in the way of the car backing out to speed off, not to run him over.
:S I know it sounds cruel but what would have happened if instead of hitting the woman the bullet killed a little kid? Would you still be trying to justify what has no justification at all?
no matter how you look at this IT'S WRONG. HE WAS WRONG AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT SHE WAS RIGHT FOR STEALING BUT HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND WHY SHE IS NOT HERE ANYMORE. Life is more and at the end of the day he will have to answer for his part.
she has paid with her life and only GOD can judge us alll. so before you make your nasty comments let it be known that GOD knows all things seen and unseen.
dickhead mall cops. If he was so concerned for his life why did he shoot the passenger, not the driver?
Wannabe real cop assholes shooting at a car full of unarmed women and kids. He didn't have to get in the cars path and he could've taken down the number plates and phoned it in to REAL cops. What an asswipe.
Even in Soviet Union Soviet Police could only return fire if fired upon. On fleeing subjects police needed to fire in the air first. I live in Europe, and work as a law enforcement officer and over here we ARREST shoplifters, not SHOT THEM TO DEATH. But in States everything seems to be possible, and the crowds are just cheering "bravery of the men in the uniform". The right question would be – are they here to "serve and protect" or are they here to "manslaughter".
She wasn't as perfect…as you…
F#$#$ PIG, charge the POS with murder. Yea I am sure as they are driving AWAY from him his life was in danger freaking morons. You know what, go ahead and keep giving the police more power eventually it will be you they shoot because you were going 4 miles over speed limit.
In fear of his life, LOL. A trained police officer feared for his life because a chick struck him with a purse? LOL wow it don't get any better than that. Freaking coward if you are fearing for your life everytime someone gives you a dirty glance, or points at you, or drives past you at a high speed you have no business being a cop let alone carrying a gun. Wonder if he would have shot at a moving vehicle with kids in it if those people had been white?
This is what happens when guns are abundant.
It's easier if you shoot one of the usupected perps, then the other pay attention and fess up. Too bad all of the supporters of the officer could not have gathere downwind ot the funfire. Discharging weapon in this manner is reckless….too bad he didn't shoot the person he was "aiming?" at. This old pro did not even know how to approach a car. At least he saved the county the expense of a trial.
Only in America you get shot dead for petty crimes. Bravo!
Reading this article hurts… I live in Germany and this remembers me a bad hollywood movie. It makes no difference if she was a good or bad person or she stole anything… WHY TO HELL has a person to take his gun? I don't understand this! This is too wild, too barbaric, too stupid to me. There is nothing worth a life what you can steal from Walmart (or any other shop)…. sorry.
Sure she's committed a crime, but she may be shoplifting in order to feed her children.. we don't know.. times are tough, many have fallen on hard times, and are struggling to feed their families – even if that's not the case, she shouldn't be dealt with "shoot to kill" deadly force.
Sure she's committed a crime, but she may be shoplifting in order to feed her children.. we don't know.. times are tough, many have fallen on hard times, and are struggling to feed their families – even if that's not the case, she shouldn't be dealt with "shoot to kill" deadly force.
kill all shoplifters.
What a waste of life,death penalty for suspected Shoplifting.Its difficult to understand how the Security guard who after 26 yrs service as a policeman failed to use the firearm in the manner that he was trained to do, he failed to effect a simple arrest.WALLMART should compensate the family.
Hey dad! your daughter was not the perfect, she was shop lifting, and when a uniformed sheriff's deputy tried to stop her, she ran, then tried to back away knowing the deputy was beside her, and could have hurt the deputy.
She got what was coming to her. WHY DID SHE NOT JUST STOP?
the headline, is not the correct headline. it should say " shoplifter shot and killed after she tried to back over a sheriff's deputy". He did not shot her in the store after she shop lifted.
get the head lines right.
also dad, cops do not shot out tires, the tire was not trying to kill the deputy or back away from the deputy.
your perfect thief of a daughter was.
Seeing how that the woman in question was of African American persuasion, it would be safe to assume that the off-duty deputy, doing his job, will probably pay the price. And chances are, those two that managed to live will probably never do that again, atleast not at that Walmart.
Idiot gun nuts. Killing someone for shoplifting from Walmart? They rip everyone off and no one shots them. Police state here we come! Since when does our American people close their eyes to this kind of murder! Life threatened by a car that you can just step away from and get the plate number and call your buddies to pick them up. The police are that scared that a car full of women and children!
cops in houston have a nasty reputation for getting away with shooting people.
some people cops or or not are just stupid.This guy really deserves a hero cookie.Walmart will be in buisness at least another day because of the loot he saved them.I'd like to kick him in the nuts.
What the hell is a walmart security gaurd armed with a.45 for any ways?
Sorry that the criminal mother was killed.
Driver disobeys a lawful order of a police officer, endangers his life and anyone behind her.
He shoots at her and misses and hits the other criminal.
The criminals still do not STOP and surrender and allow paramedics to get to the wounded criminal.
Misleading headline.
A very sad article demonstrating once again why some people should never be allowed to own a gun or have one on the job. The officer a 26 year veteran puts himself into this situation and then discharges his weapon into a car full of women and children, is he also a veteran of the US military used to shooting at women and children in Iraq? All you do gooders who think this is okay need a real wake up call!
Shooting a fleeing unarmed woman is the definition of a coward. Obviously the officer wasnt' at risk of being run over at the time he was shooting, as the car was driving away at that point..
This is a murder, not manslaughter…Manslaughter is 'accidental death'. This woman was killed intentionally.
Walmart Police State.
This guy deserves the DEATH PENALTY as much as anyone else ever has.
Sorry for the death… but she was a criminal. If she steals what else does she do? This chain of events would not have happened if she was not stealing.
She looks hidious. Just another gang banger "hoe". Good riddance.
xxx she will not STEAL anymore…………dum the dumdum dummmmm CASE CLOSED…..HE WAS A VERY GOOD SHOT…………
Her dad says she was a 'PERFECT MOM; PERFECT DAUGHTER' since when does a perfect mom/perfect daughter SHOPLIFT and THEN when gets caught she tries to RUN OVER the Security Officer with her car. That's NOT what a "perfect mom/perfect daughter" does.
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Gilliland said, “He confronted the suspects at exit of the store before they left. One female wouldn’t stop, struck the deputy with her purse, ran off.” He added, “I think it knocked him off balance and, in fear of his life and being ran over, he discharged his weapon at that point.” This doesn't make any sense. One of the women striking the deputy with her purse at the exit of the store knocked him off balance? Ok, but that's not when he discharged his weapon, it wasn't "at that point" he did not discharge it until they went from the exit to the parking lot.
This is murder pure and simple. This woman's community should round this animal up and hang him high.
A few months ago some border patrol animal murdered a mother of 5. The pretext then was also that she tried to run the animal over. Unfortunately it was covered so as not to jeopardize Obam's chances for re election. He have to subject these government criminals to swift, stern community justice.
Walmart security be it theirs or off duty officers get away with alot. I was returning an item for a refund and they accused me of stealing it then taking it to customer service for the refunded. Police was called, due to the cameras I was cleared. I'm white and I know without a doubt hispanic and blacks are profiled. Oh, I was in the National Guard if we ever shot and killed a civilian we were told to say that we were stopping them. Just guessing but I'm sure officers are told the same thing to cover they're ass….
give this man a medal!