People v. McNeil

Video footage from a security camera located in a Modell’s Sporting Goods store in Freeport showed the defendant and his accomplice, Mattie, shoplifting shoes from the store on July 2, 2008. A security guard intercepted them on their way out, held the door closed, and told them they could not leave and had to wait for the manager. The defendant “rammed” his body into the guard and forced the door open. As he went through the door, the defendant deliberately jammed his thumbs into the left side of the guard’s rib cage. Mattie “rushfed]” into the guard on her way out of the store. The defendant…