CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In an exclusive interview, a woman described being robbed outside of a popular Charlotte grocery store in the middle of the day.
The 29-year-old victim tells NBC Charlotte she connected with the suspect through the letgo app. When she went to meet at the Harris Teeter on Wyalong Drive, instead of making a sale, she was robbed.
The victim, Brittany Kjos, says her Lyft Driver’s dash cam video caught the suspect running away. Now, NBC Charlotte is learning of a similar crime that happened earlier this month.
The victim in the latest case shared a familiar story. Brittany Kjos says she came to the Harris Teeter to sell her I-Phone 10 RX when she was robbed. Now, she has an important message for others.
Kjos says the dash cam video caught the suspect running from her just moments after the robbery.
“He bumped me, took the phone out of my hand, and took off running,” Kjos told NBC Charlotte.
Police say the robbery happened at around 4:20 p.m. on Monday.
“I had got picked up by a Lyft driver to meet someone off of the letgo app to sell a cell phone,” Kjos said.
Kjos says she’s met with people through the app several times before and never had a problem. In the latest case, she says initially it seemed to be a normal conversation.
“We had talked for a few minutes and it seemed like he just wanted to know about the phone, usual letgo meet up,” Kjos said.
Kjos says she figured she was safe in such a public place during the day. However, she says when she started showing the suspect her phone, things suddenly changed.
“I didn’t really expect to meet someone in that much of a public place, and he’s standing there talking to me, and everything seemed fine, and then all of a sudden he took off running with it,” Kjos told NBC Charlotte.
It comes after a similar crime outside the Harris Teeter on W.T.Harris Boulevard earlier this month. Police say a man was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot.
Off camera, the 19-year-old victim told NBC Charlotte he was planning to sell a video game system to someone he met through the letgo app when they robbed him.
Kjos says in hindsight, there were suspicious signs in her case.
“The picture on his profile did not match," she said. "So I can definitely say if you’re meeting someone on letgo and the picture is not an identical match just walk away."
Kjos says next time she plans to meet the person inside the lobby of a police department.
At this point, police have not said if the cases are related. So far, no arrests have been made.