DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — Police say two teenagers pepper sprayed a 69-year-old grandmother and then stole her car in a Walmart parking lot.
The assault happened just before 11 a.m. Tuesday at the store on Highway 5 in Douglas County.
Police say the teens approached the woman and asked her for money. They then pepper-sprayed her and took off in her car.
“That's uncalled for. You shouldn't be doing that. You shouldn't be doing that to anyone, regardless, especially a woman that age,” said the woman’s neighbor, Jesse Dempsey.
Police located the woman’s car about 20 minutes later on I-20 headed toward Temple. Officers performed a pit maneuver to stop it.
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They arrested 17-year-old Kenneth Cable and took a 16-year-old boy into custody.
The victim’s daughter told Channel 2’s Tom Jones her mother is out of a hospital, but still recovering.
She said her mother’s new car is severely damaged.
Cable, who lives at a youth facility for troubled kids, is facing theft by taking charges. Jones reached out to the youth facility to find out if the teen was allowed to be off campus, but hasn't heard back.
The 16-year-old faces the same charge same charge plus armed robbery.
Dempsey said teens need to get a job and learn to respect their elders.
“I wouldn’t want someone doing that to my grandmother,” he said.
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