A 71-year-old woman was walking to her car in the parking lot of Skyway Plaza, near 62nd Avenue S and 10th Street, Sunday afternoon.
According to St. Petersburg Police Sgt. Rollin Lightfield, two men came up to the woman and tried to steal her purse.
The incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m.
The attempt to steal her purse was unsuccessful because the woman refused to hand it over to the two men.
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After the unsuccessful attempt, the two men got into a gray Oldsmobile with tinted windows, Lightfield said. He said that as the woman walked to a store for help, the two men drove by her and shot her in the lower back.
The woman then walked into a hardware store, where she asked clerks to call police.
Lightfield said that she was not injured seriously.
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