Surveillance video shows an attack on a mother in the Walmart parking lot

New Berlin, WI - A Wauwatosa man is accused of attacking a woman in the parking lot of the Walmart store in New Berlin after an argument about the placement of his shopping cart.



John Engebos, 60, faces one count of second degree recklessly endangering safety, one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of disorderly conduct.



According to a criminal complaint, police responded to the Walmart store near Moorland and Greenfield in New Berlin on Friday, July 20, for a report of an assault.



There, they met with Cory Richardson, 33, who indicated she was in Walmart, where she made a purchase, before leaving the store with her two children, a 9-year-old daughter and a baby, Oliver, who was in a car seat on the top of her cart. She said she saw Engebos in the parking lot with an empty cart.



Richardson indicated Engebos put his cart halfway onto a grassy median, partially blocking her vehicle, instead of returning it to the cart corral.



"And I yelled to him to please put his cart away, and he said 'no, there's people who get paid to do that'," said Richardson.



She said when she asked him to at least move the cart out of the way of her vehicle, "he attacked her." She said she was pushed to the ground, and her infant rolled through the lot in her cart unattended.



She said she was punched and kicked by Engebos, and he pulled out her hair. She said he also took her car keys, and when she tried to get them, he threw them. She said he pushed her cart further away before getting into his vehicle -- nearly running over her family and a witness before fleeing the scene.