Mother Of Bumbling Gunman Says She Is Shocked By Surveillance Tape Of Her Son
MIAMI GARDENS (CBSMiami) - The mother of a gunman who's captured on surveillance tape bumbling through an armed robbery says she is surprised and shocked by the tape.
"It really surprise me. It surprises me and I am in shock," said Shanita Moyd, the mother of 22-year-old Johnny Love. "Nobody is perfect. I'm not saying her is perfect but he has never done anything like that before. I was really hurt and shocked. I'm a little shaky right now."
Moyd told CBS4's Peter D'Oench, "What I got from him was that total strangers who he met, these girls and he was hanging out with them. And they put something in his drink. He never acts like that. He has never been in trouble like this before."
Love was held without bond as came before a Judge on Friday in bond court, saying only five words, "How are you doing Judge?"
Love is charged with armed robbery, the use and display of a firearm while committing a felony, criminal mischief, carrying a concealed firearm and resisting an officer without violence.
Records show Love has been arrested four times for possessing marijuana but has never been in serious trouble before.
Miami Gardens Police say it was 5:40 on Thanksgiving morning when Love entered a Shell Gas Station at 17080 Northwest 7th Avenue next to the Palmetto Expressway.
Police say Love is first seen pulling a gun on a clerk, jumping over the counter and demanding cash.
During his jump, his hat falls off. He grabs it and runs back to the front of the counter. That's where he struggles to open plastic bags to put cash in them. He takes his time putting candy from the display cases in his bags along with the money. At one point, he drops his gun to the floor. He then heads back to the coolers where he slowly puts two 12-packs of beer into his bags.
It appears as if he is going to escape but for some reason police say Love is seen dropping his bags full of stolen merchandise in the parking lot. Bottles roll around the lot. He is seen struggling to put his gun back in his pants and gathering up bottles of beer---one by one. This takes two minutes and he drops the bags again.
Suddenly, a police officer who has responded to an alarm from the store runs up to him with a gun. Police say Love tries to run but is quickly caught outside of the camera's view.
"I think it's crazy," said Greg Gibbs, a customer at the Shell gas station and convenience store. "Are you kidding me? On Thanksgiving. To come here and get gas and to think that things like this are happening. It's beyond me."
Police say it's not clear if Love was intoxicated. Witnesses were stunned by Love's behavior.
Store clerks were not allowed to speak with D'Oench, saying the station is owned by the Shell Gas corporation. But D'Oench learned that the store recovered all of the $722 in cash that was taken and nearly all of the beer and gum and other candy that was stolen.
Sources told D'Oench that the gun---a 9 millimeter glock---was also recovered. Fortunately, no one was injured.
