CVS police shootout suspects detained employees with zip ties, filled trash bag with pills

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Two men accused of shooting at New Orleans police after officers confronted them during an armed robbery at an Uptown drug store tied up employees with zip ties and filled a trash bag with prescription drugs, an NOPD sergeant wrote.

According to an affidavit of probable cause in one of the accused men’s case, the pair were leaving the store with a trash bag filled with pills and other “medical supplies” from the Prytania Street CVS when the officers, with guns drawn, confronted them at the front of the store.

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The encounter ultimately led to an exchange of gunfire between the two men, Richard Sansbury, 26; and Alan Parson, 18, and the three police officers outside the drug store at Prytania and Upperline streets. The confrontation resulted in bullet wounds to one of the officers and both Sansbury and Parson. The officer was shot in the shoulder and Sansbury was shot in the hip, officials said. It’s unclear where Parson was struck, but NOPD said he was in stable condition when EMS took him to a hospital.

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Parson suspect started to fill a large trash bag with “several pill bottles” he retrieved from the pharmacy’s safe. About two minutes later, Sansbury came to the pharmacy area, “interacted” with the person whose feet Parson secured, and then Sansbury used zip-ties to secure that person’s hands. After filing the trash bag, the pair went to the front of the store, where the three officers confronted them. NOPD said police received a call about the armed robbery at 6:08 a.m., arrived at 6:10 a.m., and a revised call indicating officers needed help was issued about a minute later.

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