Tropical Smoothie employee helped police track Ross stabbing suspect before shooting

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A man who randomly stabbed a woman outside a Ross store in York County was shot and killed by police after he grabbed a hammer and lunged at officers inside a nearby Home Depot, investigators said.

The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when Stephen Ball from Newport, North Carolina, attacked the woman as she was leaving the Ross store in a shopping center near Williamsburg, according to investigators.

Rachel Rouse was working her shift at Tropical Smoothie Cafe when she noticed something was wrong outside…

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