White Settlement, Texas — In the wee hours of Christmas Eve, while most of North Texas was asleep, two masked thieves used a stolen black SUV as the centerpiece in a brazen ATM theft attempt that left a 7-Eleven convenience store in ruins and police hunting for answers.
Surveillance footage released by the White Settlement Police Department captures the chaotic scene that unfolded around 3:45 a.m. on South Cherry Lane, when the suspects drove up in a late-model SUV — later identified as a stolen vehicle from Dallas — and executed a plan that looked more like a movie stunt than a calculated robbery.
The suspects, both clad in black hoodies, pants, face masks, and orange gloves, began by smashing the store’s front glass with a handheld tool. One of them then hurried inside and, with a metal cable, rigged the massive ATM to the rear of the SUV…