Taco stand patrons surround robbery suspect, hold him for police, NC officials say

A taco stand robbery was halted when customers pulled the fleeing suspect from his car and held him to the ground for police, according to investigators in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It happened around 10:45 p.m. Saturday, April 4, near the intersection of Remount Road and Wilkinson Boulevard, and one of the patrons was injured when the suspect hit her with his car, court documents report.

Marcus Chisholm, 44, is accused of snatching the taco stand’s cash register from a cashier’s table and running to his car, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say.

“The defendant then began to try to flee the scene and put the car in drive. The patrons around the pop-up taco stand ran over to intervene,” an affidavit reports.

“While they were intervening a female ... was hit by the vehicle. After the defendant hit the victim with his vehicle he began to flee the scene. The defendant got the vehicle stuck in the mud due to the recent rain.”

Nearby patrons then “pulled him out of the vehicle and ... held him on the ground until law enforcement officers arrived,” court documents say.

The woman struck by the vehicle suffered multiple serious injuries and was admitted to a hospital, police said. Details of her condition were not released.

Chisholm told Charlotte-Mecklenburg police he was short on rent “and knew he was going to do something,” the warrant says.

He was arrested and charged with: felony larceny; felony hit-and-run with serious injury; misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon; misdemeanor possession of marijuana; driving with no operator’s license and wreckless driving, according to court documents.

This story was originally published April 9, 2026 at 7:17 AM with the headline "Taco stand patrons surround robbery suspect, hold him for police, NC officials say."