WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old boy was arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after several people were pepper-sprayed during a theft at a Walmart, authorities said.
Police told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. three teenage boys entered the Empress Avenue Walmart Saturday afternoon and took an air rifle without paying for it.
When store security caught them, one of them whipped out a can of pepper spray and fired, hitting customers, the guards and one of his accomplices, who was left behind in the store and arrested. The other two remained at large Sunday.
Injured people fled the store and several needed medical treatment, police said.
"I kept coughing and coughing and then my wife came around and she was coughing and she said, 'Let's go because I can't take it,'" Alex Krawek said afterward.
The boy who was arrested is charged with robbery with a weapon and unauthorized possession of a weapon, police said. He is being held at the Manitoba Youth Center.
