Tyler Robbery Suspect Arrested
Posted/updated on: October 12, 2011 at 2:16 am
TYLER – One person is in custody in connection with the robbery of a woman in the parking lot of the Super One foods store at 1105 East Gentry. It happened shortly after 4:15 Monday afternoon. A woman tells officers she had finished shopping and was putting her small children in their car seats in the back seat of her car a man got in the back seat and grabbed her by the throat. She fought of the man, identified as Donny Quang Ngo, 35, of Tyler, and jumped out of the car.
She says Ngo got out of the car and started assaulting her. He then got into the front seat of the car, which she thought he was going to steal the vehicle with her children inside. Instead, he grabbed her purse, which had been sitting on the front seat and jumped from the car.
Her screams had alerted store employees and other customers who chased Ngo to the highway in front of the store where they tacked him and held him till officers arrived. The victim did not require medical attention. Ngo was transported to East Texas Medical Center where he was treated and released for minor injuries. Ngo was then booked into the Smith County jail for robbery and released.
