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***UPDATE/REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE 4-14-14, updated 2:20 PM from morning update to include photo and detail***APD Detectives are attempting to locate and interview other witnesses to this case.  There were three or possibly four people who saw this incident that have not been identified and did not speak to officers on the night of the incident.  The store’s security camera shows people standing in the parking lot, possibly watching the robbery.  This case is still under investigation pending contact with witnesses.  The attached photograph shows the three or four people standing near a car at the gas pumps.  The victim's car is not visible in these photographs.  Their position indicates they are all looking the same direction, possibly watching the robbery. Other cars also drove across the parking lot during the crime.  If you were a witness to this incident or have any information about a witness, please call the APD Detective Division’s Robbery Squad at 378-4243.   

ORIGINAL RELEASE DETAILS: On 4-9-14, at 11:16 PM, officers were sent to the Toot ‘n Totum store at 2024 S. Washington on an “attempted carjacking.”  A white female Amarillo resident told officers that she was putting gas into her black Toyota.  A man that she had seen standing in front of the store approached her.  He asked her for a ride, and she refused.  He walked away, and appeared to be asking other people on the lot for a ride.  He then approached her again and told her that he was going to take her car.  She got into her car and tried close the door, but the man was able to pull the door open before she could secure it.  He pulled her out of the car.  The victim was able to keep control of her car keys while being forced out of the car.  A witness saw the incident and pulled up beside the victim’s car.  The suspect tried to get into the vehicle the witness was driving, but could not open the locked door.  The victim ran into the store and called the police.  She saw the suspect take the gas nozzle out of her car and then get into the car.  He could not start the car because she still had the keys.  He got out of the vehicle and went toward Wolflin Avenue.  Responding officers including an officer with a police canine started searching the area.  The canine team located the suspect, who was hiding in some bushes in the 2000 block of S. Hughes, and took him into custody.  The suspect Barry Don Baird WM 41 of Amarillo was booked into the Potter County Detention Center on a charge of robbery.