Overview
- Bodycam and store video show Shane Newman, 21, pull a handgun, aim at a Canton police officer and pull the trigger as an audible click is heard.
- A Walmart loss prevention employee lunged in and helped disarm Newman, and no one was injured.
- Newman faces counts including attempted murder, felonious assault on a police officer, robbery, aggravated possession of drugs and having weapons under disability.
- He is being held in Stark County on a reported $1 million bond after an initial search missed the concealed gun and the officer had just been alerted to an active warrant labeling him armed and dangerous.
- Companion Katerina Jeffrey, 23, was charged with complicity to commit robbery and a weapons-related offense after ammunition was found, and reports on why the gun did not fire remain unconfirmed.