Updated: 1:21 PM MST December 19, 2020
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. When a woman got into a running vehicle that wasn t hers Saturday morning outside a store, a clerk who worked there tried to stop her and was hit by the vehicle, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department (WRPD).
About 7 a.m. Saturday, police responded to a report of an unwanted person in a business in the 4700 block of Kipling Street, near the intersection with Interstate 70, WRPD said.
As officers arrived on scene, they witnessed the suspect, identified as Ashley Alvarez, 29, get into the vehicle. As she drove away, she hit the clerk, who was trying to stop her, according to police.