In a startling sequence of events in Missouri, a woman wielding a pocketknife embarked on a crime spree that began with a convenience store robbery and escalated to a violent encounter in a Walmart parking lot. Local authorities have identified the suspect as 31-year-old Samantha Feeler, who now faces multiple felony charges including attempted robbery, assault, unlawful use of a weapon, and armed criminal action.

The incident unfolded around 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon when Feeler reportedly entered a Sinclair convenience store on North Bishop Avenue in Rolla. Approaching the checkout counter, she allegedly brandished a pocketknife and demanded money from the cashier, threatening lethal consequences if her demands were not met.

“Open the drawer and give me money,” she is reported to have commanded. “Open the drawer or I’m going to kill you,” she allegedly threatened, according to a probable cause statement obtained by Law&Crime.

In a moment of fear and desperation, the cashier attempted to trigger the store’s panic button but failed to activate it. Realizing the situation was out of control, Feeler fled the scene before a Rolla Police Department officer arrived in response to the alarmed call.

The dramatic series of events continued as Feeler allegedly made her way to a nearby Walmart, where another confrontation took place, further compounding the gravity of the charges against her. As the investigation unfolds, the community grapples with the unsettling nature of the incident.

Less than an hour later, Feeler is believed to have threatened someone else. This time, she was at the Walmart Supercenter located on South Bishop Avenue in the city, according to the probable cause statement. Feeler parked her car in the parking lot and approached a woman as she was “seated inside her vehicle.”

The woman “rolled her window down, at which time Feeler displayed the same knife used during the robbery at Sinclair and threatened to stab her,” the officer, recalling the scene, wrote. The woman “began screaming for help as Feeler reached through the open window” and grabbed something. The woman continued to scream as she tried to roll the window up.

Feeler reportedly then “returned to her vehicle and later entered Walmart.” At about 4 p.m., the same officer who responded to Sinclair arrived at the superstore.

Officers were focused on the suspect by this time. While Feeler was inside Walmart, she “actively resisted officers.” She was eventually arrested, with authorities noting she was wearing the same clothing that “she was observed wearing during the robbery at Sinclair.”

Feeler was transported to the Phelps County Jail, but, according to the court document, her transgressions had not ended. As her handcuffs were removed, she “attempted to grab a department-issued Taser” from an officer’s vest, and while being fingerprinted, she “fled from the booking area.”

She was subsequently cuffed again and placed into a jail cell, where she remains, per jail records. Her bond was set at $250,000, and she has a bond review hearing scheduled for Jan. 6, 2026.