KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Kansas City Police are investigating after a woman in her 70s was assaulted and had her purse stolen outside the Trader Joe’s at Ward Parkway Center on Wednesday.

The incident happened in the store’s parking lot. The suspect used physical force to assault the woman, grabbed her purse, and left the area.

The crime comes less than a week after a separate incident outside the same store, when a 20-year-old college student fought off two people in an attempted carjacking.

Both victims ran in to run into Trader Joe’s for help afterwards.

Police are reviewing surveillance footage from both incidents. Ward Parkway Shopping Center Senior Manager Fred Spille said they are assisting police with video and images and have recently made security upgrades to the propert

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