Surveillance video of a wee-hours ruckus at a Macon Wal-Mart on Sunday shows a teenager race inside flashing gang signs ahead of a mob of four dozen or so people who burst in and smashed merchandise.
The commotion, which caused an estimated $2,000 in damage, appears to have been planned.
Some in the crowd also snatched a man, apparently a shopper at the Zebulon Road store, from a motorized shopping cart and dragged him to the floor, Bibb County sheriffs officials said Monday.
The vandals, said to number between 40 and 50, sprinted down the stores main aisle about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, destroying merchandise displays and items, a sheriffs deputys report of the incident noted.
Floors in parts of the store were coated with broken merchandise, the report added. The length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about.
When sheriffs deputies got there, the crowd began to flee into many different vehicles and leave the scene, the report said.
The store, next to Lowes, is just east of Interstate 475 in one of the areas most frequented shopping districts.
The teenager seen leading the rushing horde of young men and women told a Wal-Mart employee that this was a planned event ... to see how much damage they could cause, the sheriffs report said.
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