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Parking lot impatience leads to gun charges after woman flashes pistol outside St. Augustine Target: SAPD

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM · 1 min read
Parking lot impatience leads to gun charges after woman flashes pistol outside St. Augustine Target: SAPD — St. Augustine Business news

A Saturday afternoon at a St. Augustine Target turned frightening when a passenger in a vehicle allegedly pulled a handgun in the store’s parking lot, according to the St. Augustine Police Department.The incident occurred around 12:35 p.m. at the Target on US 1 in St. Augustine.What happened in the parking lotAccording to the arrest report, a victim who was driving a vehicle had stopped in the parking lot while her husband returned a shopping cart. A nearby vehicle was attempting to back out of a parking space and became impatient with the victim’s car blocking the path.The victim pulled her vehicle forward to clear the way and apologized. That’s when, according to police, the 58-year-old suspect in the other vehicle raised a black handgun, waved it in the direction of the victims and said, “This is what happens when you yell at people.”The victim and the occupants of her vehicle immediately called police out of fear for their lives and were able to provide officers with the suspect ve

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