LAUDERDALE LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) - Deputies have arrested a man who was allegedly behind an armed robbery in Lauderdale Lakes.
On Thursday, 18-year-old Edwin Hankerson Jr. was arrested.
According to investigators, a woman was walking in a parking garage along the 4000 block of Northwest 34th Street on July 8 when a man walked up behind her.
The man asked the woman a question to which she responded and kept on walking. He then hit her on the head with a gun and took her purse.
The victim’s gut-wrenching screams were heard on the surveillance video that caught the crime.
Hankerson is being held without bond.
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