Video shows theft of boy's wheelchair at Twins game

Surveillance tape show man's struggle to leave Dome.

By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune

Last update: July 31, 2008 - 1:32 PM

Officials with the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission have released a surveillance video of the man who they say rode off with an expensive wheelchair Tuesday night. The chair belongs to a teenage boy who has a muscular disease.

Sam Dougherty, 17, had been at the Metrodome attending the Twins-White Sox game. He parked his electric wheelchair, valued at more than $15,000, in the stadium concourse. When he went to leave the game, the wheelchair was gone.

The surveillance video showed a man on a chair similar to Dougherty's leave the Metrodome in the seventh inning. The video shows the man struggling to get out of the building, until a Metrodome employee helps him.

Anybody with information is asked to call Minneapolis Police at 612-692-8477.

TIM HARLOW

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