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PLEASANT HILL CA Feb 25 2012 – An attempt by a group of women to shoplift items from a store at the Sunvalley mall resulted in gunfire and the arrest of four suspects, police said.

Concord police responded to the JCPenney parking lot about 5:45 p.m. after members of the store’s security team tried to detain the four women after noticing the shoplifting attempt, Corp. David Dunkley said in a news release.

But the women fought back, assaulting two of the agents and pulling out a gun and firing it, Dunkley said. Nobody was injured by the gunfire, but the commotion helped the four suspects escape, two of them fleeing through the parking lot on foot and the other two in a vehicle.

An officer on Highway 4 spotted the vehicle with two of the suspects. The driver yielded off the Port Chicago Highway exit, where police ordered the suspects out of at gunpoint and arrested the women after finding evidence inside that linked them to the JCPenney robbery, Dunkley said.

Concurrently, Pleasant Hill police caught up to the other two suspects near Contra Costa Boulevard and Concord Avenue and arrested them, Dunkley said.

The names and ages of the suspects were not immediately available late Thursday, but police said all were adults.

All four women were arrested on suspicion of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, battery, brandishing a firearm, possession of a loaded and concealed firearm, possession of stolen property and threatening a victim/witness to a crime, Dunkley said. They were to be taken to County Jail in Martinez.

Source:mercury news