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Bizarre attempted robbery caught on surveillance video
A woman is custody after troopers said she fired shots inside a Lincoln County convenience store during an alleged attempted robbery.
The incident was reported just before 4 a.m. Friday morning at the Shell station on Little Coal River Road in Lincoln County, according to West Virginia State Police.
Troopers said the woman, identified as Rebecca Peterson, 42, of Oceana, walked up to the counter with a firearm and told the worker she wanted to rob the store before a shot was fired, hitting the wall.
The worker told Peterson that the owner was in the back counting money, so she walked toward that area and realized the owner was not there, troopers said. A camera in the back of the store was then shot at.
During this time, the worker ran out of the store and called 911.
Peterson was seen getting into a black SUV which went northbound on U.S. 119. Troopers said she was caught a short time later along with a gun believed to have been involved in the incident.
A news release from West Virginia State Police said Peterson is being charged with attempted armed robbery, wanton endangerment, brandishing, assault and destruction of property.
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