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Purse snatcher runs over metro Detroit woman in Kroger parking lot

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A purse-snatcher targeted a woman outside a busy grocery store around 7 a.m. Tuesday, but things got even worse when his victim tried to fight back.

It happened at the Kroger in Taylor. A victim in her 60's is now in the hospital with a broken shoulder and other injuries.

Surveillance video just released by police shows a man approaching the woman at her vehicle and asking to borrow her cell phone.

Seconds later, he grabbed her wallet from her lap and ran back to his Jeep.

When the 64-year-old Taylor woman ran after him to try and open his SUV door, she was run over as he drove westbound on Ecorse Road.

Early Wednesday morning, the suspect turned himself in at a local police station.