A 21 year-old man who is also an elementary school volunteer has been caught on camera using his phone camera to upskirt a woman at a North Carolina Target on Monday.
The man Thomas Elliott, a volunteer at Eastern Elementary School, is seen pointing the camera under the unsuspecting shopper’s skirt in the Greenville store.
“No matter how much you try to think you’re going to be prepared for it, it kind of throws you threw a loop when it actually happens,” said another shopper who recorded the incident.
She said she shot the shocking video after she noticed the creep following her around the store.“I decided to get up and scoot over and then at this point I was not focusing on what I was trying to buy anymore,” she said.
“I was more distracted by him still lingering in the area.”She alerted store security and later posted the footage, which showed cops placing Elliott in handcuffs.A Pitt County schools spokesperson confirmed that the suspect was a volunteer at Eastern Elementary School.
“We are disturbed and deeply concerned by video footage of the individual that has been shared on social media and news outlets, and based on the footage, the individual will not be returning to our campuses as a volunteer or hired as an employee,” rep Tom McClellan told the outlet.
He added that all volunteers and visitors are screened through Raptor, a program that determines if people are on sex offender databases.The Opendoor Church in Winterville also told the outlet that Elliott had volunteered there.
“Thomas Elliott was immediately terminated upon notification of his arrest on Monday,” the church told WITN without providing details on what exactly he did there.
Authorities said they have not found any inappropriate images of children on Elliott’s phone.
A search warrant for the device said he “denied any wrongdoing and showed us (police) the recent pictures he had on his cellphone,” WITN reported.
The warrant reportedly seeks video files, digital images, text messages, and “deleted information that may be recovered via a forensic examination.
”Elliott was charged with felony secret peeping and has posted a $5,000 bond
“As a woman, it’s concerning and sickening to watch truthfully,” Greenville police spokeswoman Kristen Hunter told the outlet. “We do applaud the woman for capturing this on video and confronting the suspect.”
She added: “I think the key takeaways are being aware of your surroundings at all times, trusting that gut feeling, and speaking up when you feel some things are off.”
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