May 20, 2010 Shoplifter gets ten year prison sentence www.privateofficer.com
On Tuesday, Homer Hendrix, 37, of Meridian Road on the East Side, was found guilty of aggravated robbery and robbery but not guilty of felonious assault on a peace officer.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Beverly Y. Pfeiffer said Hendrix had eight prior convictions, most recently for robbery and receiving stolen property, and that the incident on April 7, 2009, wasn’t the first time he had assaulted a security officer or attempted to run from police after a theft.
She called him a threat to society.
Security officers at the Kohl’s store on S. Hamilton Road across from Eastland Mall called police after surveillance video showed Hendrix shoplifting clothes.
Hendrix ran from the store to a waiting car at the same time that Officer Brett Bodell arrived in an unmarked van. Bodell shot Hendrix in the shoulder as Hendrix rammed the van.
Hendrix said he did not know Bodell was a police officer.
Bodell and his wife told the judge that they were emotionally distraught over what happened.
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