
Sales was charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of armed robbery. "Be aware that just because it's a nice shopping center, there are still bad people trying to get away with whatever they can, and they're not afraid to hurt a little child." "My main thing is you have to be aware of what makes you a victim," she said. The victim followed Sales and called police, who later caught up with the suspect.Īfter her terrifying experience, she said she has a message that all shoppers need to hear. "That woman walked by again, and I recognized her immediately, and so did my daughter.

We sat outside, we finished eating and paid our bill," she said. "So we went to The Cheesecake Factory and sat outside. The victim said her daughter wanted to face her fears. Just four days later, on her daughter's ninth birthday, the victim returned to the Town Center. In a bizarre twist of fate, that encounter was not the last time the victim or her daughter would see their alleged attacker. She said Sales then took the keys and the battery from her cell phone and threw them into the woods and took off, letting the victim and her daughter go unharmed. The victim said Sales made her drive her where she wanted to go. I couldn't use it anymore, couldn't give her any more money." Luckily at that point, Bank of America shut off my ATM card. Johns Bluff (Road) to see if we could get money out of that. "She made us drive to the Wachovia on Beach (Boulevard) and St.

She was talking to someone in Creole and said she wasn't happy with that and it wasn't enough (money)," the victim said. Investigators said Sales demanded the victim to drive to the ATM and take out as much cash as she could. Police later identified the suspect as 21-year-old Ashley Sales. "She came behind my daughter, pushed her in with a gun, said, 'Scoot over,' got in the car and said we were going to take her to ATMs and get out cash and give her the cash," the victim said. She said as she and her daughter were walking back to their car, a woman put a gun to her child's back.

She said she had just finished a nice dinner with her daughter at the P.F.
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"My first thought was, 'Change the channel, this is a movie or something,' but it was very real." "I thought, 'This can't be real,'" she said. Johns Town Center.Ī woman, who had asked not to be identified, said her 9-year-old daughter is still terrified about what happened. – A mother and daughter night out turned terrifying when they said they were kidnapped at gunpoint at the St.
