Houston Community News >> Mugged in Front of Dillards at the Galleria: A Mother's Story
12/8/2006 Houston-- Two days
ago at approximately 6:30 p.m. my beautiful, 29 year old daughter was MUGGED at
the FRONT DOOR of Dillard's at the Galleria. She saw the fellow with her
peripheral vision coming toward her as she approached the store and immediately
sensed trouble. She immediately changed directions and ran into the oncoming
traffic trying to get away from him. He changed directions as well. He beat her
with a gun at the front door and took her bag. There were folks out everywhere.
One of the employees told us last evening that this was the second incident
there yesterday and that Dillard's offers NO customer security services. The
parking lot has a number of lights out and evidently is turning into a scary
place. Missi is a medical implant sales rep and of course was all dressed up
with 30 minutes to spare before meeting clients for dinner. She has large knots
on her head and a big bruise in her side where he also hit her with the gun.
Other than other large bruises and soreness, she has no other injuries. He beat
her to the ground!!!
Within minutes we were canceling credit cards; but within minutes they had
charged over $1500 at one store down on Cullen using only one card. The only
description we have is that he (and his accomplice) drive a green Nissan truck
(several years old), appeared to be in his late twenties and is Afro-American.
In their struggle, she managed to knock his hat off his head which the police
now have custody of. The scariest part of this is that he has her driver's
license, spare Lexus key, checks, and of course the usual bank and credit cards.
Since he now also knows her address, we had locks changed late last night.
According to an employee, that was the SECOND incident at the store yesterday.
They went on to say that Dillard's security officers spend a lot of time inside
the store because merchandise seems to be more important than customer safety!!!
The number of lights that they have which are burned out or were not functioning
is unbelievable!!!
We feel very blessed that she is alive and has no permanent injuries. We all
think of the Galleria as being safe (particularly before it is totally dark in
the evening) but nothing could be further from the truth. Please spread the word
that everyone needs to be so careful. Channel 2 is planning to air the story
this evening. She is extremely frightened. Please remember her and pass this
story on to others so they may be more cognizant of their safety.