The suspects were arrested just 15 minutes after the shooting and are being booked on multiple charges including murder, robbery, child endangerment and conspiracy.
Blake Mohs, a Home Depot security guard in Pleasanton, Calif., was killed by Benicia Knapps after catching her stealing a phone charger before fleeing in a getaway car with her boyfriend and toddler.
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(PLEASANTON, Calif.) A 26-year-old Home Depot employee was fatally shot after confronting an alleged shoplifter armed with a handgun at a California store, authorities said.
The suspected shooter was detained along with an alleged accomplice after fleeing the scene in a getaway car, police said.
The shooting occurred around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday inside a Home Depot in Pleasanton, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Blake Mohs, an unarmed loss prevention employee, "attempted to stop a theft in progress when a struggle ensued," the Pleasanton Police Department said in a statement. The female suspect was allegedly trying to leave the store with what was believed to be an electrical item when she "resisted and shot him," police said.
Mohs later died from his injuries, police said.
"Blake s life was cut short by this senseless act of violence that started as a theft and turned into a robbery and ended in his murder," Pleasanton Lt. Erik