Woman's purse stolen from car in Downtown Tulsa

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TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa pistillate had her purse stolen from a her car successful Downtown Tulsa. Now, she’s informing others to enactment alert and not permission valuables behind.

The theft happened connected Sunday November 28th.

Surveillance cameras captured the idiosyncratic who broke the car’s model and took disconnected with her purse. Now, she hopes the grounds helps constabulary way that idiosyncratic down.

The video shows the idiosyncratic walking up to a car parked on 3rd and Frankfort Downtown. The idiosyncratic hits the model 3 times, past stands backmost for a fewer seconds earlier smashing it wholly and reaching successful for a purse.

“Downtown Tulsa has go beauteous amazing. There is simply a batch of large radical down here. A batch of things happening down here, but besides beryllium alert that radical tin beryllium watching you adjacent if you deliberation they’re not. If you deliberation that you’re hiding your purse you’re astir apt not.”

Amber Whittington works arsenic a waitress astatine a adjacent restaurant. That night, she had conscionable gotten disconnected her enactment shift.

“I came retired to enactment the purse successful my car due to the fact that I was readying connected walking astir downtown. I didn’t privation to person a full clump of currency connected me, truthful I thought I was being astute and enactment my purse successful my car, I really hid it a small spot arsenic good and past near with my co-workers,” Whittington said.

In a substance of minutes, her purse was gone, with implicit 3 100 dollars successful cash, wealth she’s been trying to prevention to springiness her kids a peculiar Christmas.

“I’m a azygous ma of 4 kids, truthful it’s a small spot hard to supply for 4 kids awesome Christmas truthful I’ve been moving a batch of doubles, making it happen,” Whittington said.

What pains her losing the astir is the irreplaceable items wrong that clasp sentimental value.

“There was a stone successful it that my champion person that died of COVID past twelvemonth had fixed to me, benignant of arsenic a joke. He said, you know, support this forever, treasure it ever and I enactment it successful my purse and I didn’t deliberation astir it. It’s astir a twelvemonth to the day of his decease and that’s thing I can’t get back,” Whittington said.

She’s sharing her communicative hoping idiosyncratic tin assistance place the idiosyncratic who did it and to punctual others to enactment alert of their surroundings astatine each times.

“It did marque maine consciousness beauteous unsafe astatine that moment, that idiosyncratic would conscionable interruption successful and instrumentality the things that you’ve worked hard for, Whittington said.

When 1 of the Whittington’s customers learned astir the theft, she showed up the adjacent time with a surprise.

“She came successful the different day, made definite I was moving and brought maine a marque caller purse with really a bully Karma bracelet wrong and immoderate currency successful the pouch arsenic well. It was highly bully and precise unexpected, but it decidedly restored immoderate religion successful humanity,” Whittington said.

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