Woman ‘accelerated’ and ran over bank worker putting up Christmas lights because drive-thru was closed: Police

Inset: Jemma Allen (St. Claire, Missouri Police Dept.). Background: The bank where Allen allegedly ran over a bank worker putting up Christmas lights (Google Maps).

Inset: Jemma Allen (St. Claire, Missouri Police Dept.). Background: The bank where Allen allegedly ran over a bank worker putting up Christmas lights (Google Maps).

A 41-year-old woman in Missouri is accused of intentionally running over a bank employee who was putting up Christmas lights after becoming enraged that decorating project temporarily closed the bank’s drive-thru window.

Jemma Allen was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of second-degree assault and one count of resisting or interfering with an arrest for a felony, authorities announced. According to a news release from the St. Clair Police Department, officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel at about 9:30 a.m. responded to a call about a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle in the parking lot of Sullivan bank in the 1100 block of North Main Street. The financial establishment is about 50 miles southwest of St. Louis.

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