white woman pulls gun on black family in mall

#WHITE WOMAN PULLS GUN ON BLACK FAMILY IN MALL DRIVER#

There was one thing I had to do, and it was step in front of and protect this woman.'īanks explained that as this was happening, more people saw the commotion and came over to them. 'In that moment, I can honestly say, I didn't feel any fear,' Brewer said.

#WHITE WOMAN PULLS GUN ON BLACK FAMILY IN MALL DRIVER#

At this point, kind of accepting ‘OK God, I'm ready,’' she told ABC15 through tears.īanks said that is when Brewer jumped directly in front of her, his hands up to face the driver who was now pointing the weapon at both of them. 'I'm looking dead in her eyes, and I know she was going to shoot me,' Banks said. What is wrong with you?' I pointed at my car, and I'm walking toward her at this point.' 'I can just see her driving and I see her come back around,' Banks remembered.īanks said that driver returned, parking right back in the space she had just left. The driver sped off, but, they say, she did not go far. 'I'm yelling at her, like, trying to get her attention from harassing this young woman who was doing nothing,' he said. So shocking, he said, Brewer got out of his car to check on Banks and chastise the driver. He said he was in his car mapping out the route back home when he heard the honking and watched as Banks was nearly hit. He just happened to stop by the mall after dropping off family at the airport.

John Brewer, of Prescott Valley, was parked a few spaces down. 'I had my door open and at that time, I kind of lunged myself in the door to protect myself,' Banks said, also adding her first thoughts at the time, “As a social worker, my first kind of initial response was maybe she's unwell, she's unstable.” Within seconds, Banks said the driver, who she describes as a White woman in her 70s with short white hair, pulled forward in the parking space and nearly hit her. Maybe it's somebody I know,'' she explained. And, I'm like 'ok it's this person right here. 'I hear the car in front of me turn on and honk again. On the Friday morning of Juneteenth, Roicia Banks found herself looking down the barrel of a gun as she was getting out of her car in the parking lot of Tempe Marketplace.īanks was preparing to open her car door when the driver of an SUV, that was parked diagonally across from her, began honking her horn.

White woman pulls gun on black family in mall