Greetings, Some of you have received an email regarding an incident that took place at SouthPark Mall. For those of you that have not received the email yet, I will explain what took place. On Sunday evening around 5:30 a citizen was leaving SouthPark, she was park on the top level of the Dillard's parking deck. She advised that when she got into her vehicle she locked her doors like she always does. She advised that the next thing she knew, two black males were attempting to open her car doors. One was at the driver side door and one was at the passenger side. The citizen advised that she laid on her horn to attract attention and put her vehicle in reverse and got out of there. She located a SouthPark security officer on the next level down and informed him of what happened. The security guard attempted to locate the subjects, but was unable to do so. The citizen did everything right in this incident, with the exception of calling 911 and reporting it. It is unfortunate that we (CMPD) had to find out about this incident through an email that has been circulated. I think that the email is a good tool to help get information out, but when emails like this get circulated, a lot of times the details get changed around or are not reported correctly. The email that is going around regarding this incident appears to be reporting the correct details, however there have been some in the past that have not always reported the details correctly. Therefore I am asking that if you received an email regarding a certain incident, and you think that it needs to be past on. Send the email to me and allow me to check and make sure that all of details are correct before you past it on. We want to make sure that the right information is getting out there. Officer A.L. Pharr Providence Division Community Coordinator 704 336-2652 Apharr1@xxxxxxxx