A Sunday arrest capped a wild 24 hours across Wake and Franklin counties, after investigators say a Wake Forest man carried out back-to-back daytime assaults in busy parking lots, then bolted across county lines before troopers boxed him in near Raleigh’s North Hills. Authorities identified the suspect as Anthony Howard Hall. He is being held in the Wake County Detention Center and is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon.
Back-to-back parking-lot attacks, police say
According to Wake Forest police, the weekend turned ugly around 3 p.m. Saturday in the Sam’s Club parking lot on West Oak Avenue. Officers say Hall approached a woman, demanded cash and threw her to the ground. When a man stepped in to help, police say Hall punched him. A second woman then got out of her vehicle, and officers say Hall seized the moment, jumped into that car and drove off.
Investigators also link Hall to a similar Friday-night assault at a Food Lion parking lot in Youngsville, as reported by WRAL. Police say the two incidents form a short but alarming cross-county spree that moved from Franklin County into Wake County in less than a day.
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