Nationwide — Mae St. Julien, a 73-year-old African American great-grandmother from DeKalb County, Georgia, says she was violently slapped on her bottom whereas purchasing at a neighborhood Kroger grocery retailer, leaving her shocked and frightened. Police are actually investigating the incident.
St. Julien says she was pushing her purchasing cart down aisle 3 on the Ellenwood Kroger on Flat Shoals Parkway on February 26, round 4:30 p.m., choosing up elements for a recipe she discovered on-line. She thought she was protected till a younger man approached from behind and struck her arduous on the bottom.
“It made a loud noise. like a gunshot nearly,” St. Julien instructed WSB-TV. She referred to as the assault a “type of sexual assault to be hit in that spot.” The younger man reportedly smirked earlier than working off.
When police arrived, St. Julien realized the responding officer had simply dealt with an identical case at a grocery retailer throughout the road. In that incident, two girls had been reportedly hit in the identical approach, although they could not have pursued fees.
The assault left St. Julien shocked, indignant, and traumatized. She says she might search counseling and needs to warn others to remain alert whereas purchasing. “I need him to be caught, to be stopped,” she stated. After greater than 20 years [of] purchasing at that Kroger, she says she is going to now not return.
DeKalb County police confirmed the assault is below investigation and urges anybody with data to return ahead.
