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Police identify, jail shoplifter escapee
Courtesy of Collin County - Timothy Evans, 38, on Friday led Allen and McKinney police on a 20-minute car chase to avoid being arrested for shoplifting at an Allen Walmart store. Evans gave police several false names, and has been charged with robbery, evading arrest, and failure to identify.
By Chris Beattie, cbeattie@starlocalnews.com
Police needed fingerprints to identify a shoplifter who Friday led them on a car chase through Allen and McKinney then gave them false names.
At 11:52 a.m. that day, Allen police received an emergency call from the Walmart store off Exchange Parkway in Allen, from where a man had escaped the store loss-prevention unit's detainment, injuring one employee's arm when he slammed a door on it, said Sgt. Jon Felty of the Allen Police Department.
"He decided, for whatever reason, he wasn't going in today," Felty said.
"He was all over the place," Felty said. "He went a very indirect route."
Dave Richards, a McKinney resident on his way to the SPCA near Custer Road, almost collided head-on with Evans' truck. Richards said he saw approaching police cars, two in the proper lane and one following Evans in the wrong lane, shortly before Evans just missed running into him.
"It was kind of wild," Richards said. "It seemed out of place for that area...it had me more shaken than gunshots."
McKinney police joined the chase and cornered Evans' truck in a field behind the Walmart at U.S. 380 and Custer Road.
Evans ignored authorities' pleas to stop and exit his vehicle, so they shot at the truck's tires and disabled it, Felty said.
Once the truck was stopped, police took the suspect into custody.
Evans gave Allen police "at least five or six" false names, Felty said, so police were forced to fingerprint him. Once identified, he was booked into the Collin County Detention Center around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Because Evans injured the Walmart employee during his initial escape, his shoplifting charge was upgraded to felony-2 robbery. He is also charged with evading arrest with a vehicle, a third-degree felony, and failure to identify as a fugitive of justice, a class A misdemeanor.
Evans has a withstanding forgery charge out of Sebastian County, Ark., though Felty said Evans told police during their investigation that he is from Durant, Okla.
Evans is being held at the Collin County jail on $16,500 bond.
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