Wal-Mart Customer Goes on Attack With Pepper Spray, Knife
Chaos erupted inside a Wal-Mart store in New Jersey Sunday when a woman standing in a customer service line snapped and pepper-sprayed everyone around her and then attacked a mother holding her young daughter, cellphone video shows.
Carolyn Cuellar said she'd gone to the Wal-Mart in North Bergen to return a DVD and was standing in the customer service line when the woman in front of her suddenly released pepper spray, attacking at least four employees with the substance, and then went after Cuellar.
Video taken by another customer shows Cuellar screaming "My daughter!" and begging for help as her daughter's head was being slammed against the wall.
"I tried to cover my face and I felt a pull, and she yanked me and started hitting my head against the wall," said Cuellar.
After Cuellar managed to get away, the woman pulled out a six-inch knife and barricaded herself inside the package room, holding an employee inside hostage.
"I couldn't believe I was so close to being fatally injured," said Cuellar, recovering at home Tuesday, unable to return to her job as a Spanish teacher. "I just keep thinking my kids wouldn't have their mom."
It was Cuellar's daughter's fourth birthday Tuesday, but Cuellar was struggling, diagnosed with a concussion and wearing sunglasses to protect her eyes to hide the deep scratches on her face.
"I don't know what happened," said Cuellar, in tears as she wondered where security was during the fracas. "Why did they take so long?"
News 4 reached out to Wal-Mart's press office but didn't have a response by Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect, Imani Jones of the Bronx, is being held at Hudson County Jail on charges including weapons possession and aggravated assault. It wasn't clear if she had an attorney.
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