GREENSBORO, N.C. — A week later, still no answers, and a Christmas nearly ruined for one Greensboro family after their gifts were stolen from the car parked in a Walmart parking lot.
Marika McKie was doing what any parent does on Christmas Eve: crossing the last few things off of her Christmas list. She had loaded up the car with all the presents, so she and her daughter could head over to her mom's house later that night.
She ran into the Walmart on Battleground Avenue, and when she came out, she noticed hundreds of dollars worth of gifts were gone from inside her car.
"I was devastated, I had been Christmas shopping for weeks the day before and the day of, and I was in transition to go over to my mothers for Christmas so I had packed up everything," McKie said, "Just to think that somebody would have the audacity to take everything from you on Christmas Eve. I mean everything. Just thinking about it just brings me to tears."
McKie is still shocked over what time it happened - around 2:45 in the afternoon, and where it happened - in that packed parking lot Christmas Eve. She's praying for some answers from Greensboro police, or that someone there that day will come forward with information.
"For somebody to be either that desperate or that mean, or that cold do something like that on Christmas Eve they need prayers," she said, "So I'm just going to continue to ask God to give them grace and mercy."
Luckily, McKie says 9 year old daughter Madison understood and told her mom she was grateful that she wasn't in harms way when the gifts were taken.
McKie filed a police report last week, but Greensboro detectives are still investigating.