JULY 17--As a shoplifting suspect tried to flee from a Florida cop, she used her three-month-old daughter as a tiny human shield and announced, “You will have to shoot through the baby to get me!” police charge. 
 
 Ashley Taylor Wright, 23, allegedly walked out of a Dillard’s Monday evening with $261 worth of clothing hidden in a baby stroller. After being alerted to the theft by a store employee, an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy approached Wright as she got into the passenger side of a Nissan Pathfinder in the parking lot. 
 
 Wright, who had screamed at her husband to get in the car so they could leave, refused a deputy’s demand that she exit the car. At one point, she “grabbed a baby carrier and held it in front of her screaming, ‘You will have to shoot through the baby to get me!’” according to a sheriff’s report. 
 
 While Wright (seen in the adjacent mug shot) cursed and scremed at a deputy, two other small children--a two-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl--watched from the back seat. 
 
 The Pensacola resident then jumped out of the car and “began running away from it with the baby carrier,” which held her infant daughter. As a deputy closed in on her, Wright “threw the baby carrier…at me, about shoulder height,” the report notes. 
 
 After dodging the airborne carrier and the 14-pound baby, the deputy apprehended Wright, but not without a struggle. Wright, who was bleeding after she tripped and hit her head on the ground, shook her head from side-to-side, spraying deputies with blood. “Now you mother fuckers have my blood all over you bitches,” she remarked. 
 
 The baby was not injured during her brief takeoff and landing. 
 
 By the time she arrived for treatment at a local hospital, Wright had calmed down, telling deputies that she had consumed a few beers, which might have prompted her “night of bad decisions.” 
 
 While copping to stealing the clothing, Wright claimed “it was because her kids needed school clothes.” Wright, however, had stolen a woman’s shirt and two pairs of Miss Me jeans, not children’s garments. 
 
 Charged with felony child abuse, petty theft, and resisting an officer, Wright was booked into the county jail, where she remains locked up in lieu of $7000 bond. (3 pages) ||||| A mother is arrested on child abuse charges for sacrificing her infant in a failed attempt to escape a shoplifting arrest. 
 
 Ashley Wright, 23, of Pensacola, went shopping Monday night at the Santa Rosa Mall in Mary Esther. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says she went into the fitting room at Dillard’s and stuffed two pairs of Miss Me Jeans and a pink Hurley shirt, valued at $261.00, in a baby stroller and walked out of the store. 
 
 As a deputy approached her car, the Sheriff’s Office says Wright yelled at her husband to leave. When the deputy tried to get Wright out of the vehicle, she put a baby carrier, with her 3-month-old inside it, in between her and the deputy and said “You will have to shoot through the baby to get me.” 
 
 Wright then threw the 14 pound infant, still in the carrier, at the deputy and took off running Fortunately, the baby was not hurt. 
 
 Mom didn’t make it far. She fell down in the parking lot and fought the deputy as he tried to take her into custody. 
 
 Wright is charged with petty theft, child abuse and resisting an officer.
– How is it possible to rack up charges for shoplifting and child abuse at the same time? By tossing your infant daughter at the deputy coming to arrest you. Police say Pensacola's Ashley Wright, 23, was spotted by a store employee hiding about $250 worth of (adult) clothes in her daughter's baby stroller, reports WJHG. When she left the store and got in her car, a deputy approached and ordered her out. She refused, and held the baby carrier between him and her, saying, "You will have to shoot through the baby to get to me," reports the Smoking Gun. She then got out of the car and started running, still carrying the baby carrier. As the deputy chased her, she "threw the baby carrier ... at me, about shoulder height," he writes. She missed, but the 3-month-old wasn't injured. Wright, however, soon fell and was arrested. She later told police that her "night of bad decisions" probably had something to do with the beer she drank earlier.