Jennifer Angel, the owner of Oakland's popular Angel Cakes bakery, was on life support Thursday after suffering life-threatening injuries during a brazen daylight purse snatching in the rear parking lot of a Wells Fargo Bank branch. Investigators said incident took place about 12:29 p.m. Monday in the 2000 block of Webster St. less than a mile away from her shop. Angel was in the parking lot when a vehicle blocked her exit. A man approached her vehicle, broke a window, reached inside to snatch her purse, and then raced back to a getaway car.She followed the suspect back to the car, attempting to retrieve her purse. Angel became caught in the fleeing vehicle's door and was dragged more than 50 feet before falling off.
Angel suffered serious head injuries as a result of being dragged. She was rushed to the Highland Hospital Trauma Unit.
She’s in a medically induced coma.
I really feel bad for what happened to her, but if she’d let the thief go with her purse and not pursue him, she’d have her health and well-being to go work another day and replace what she’d lost. I’ll bet she just visited the merchant window at the bank, maybe someone inside was watching and tipped off the car waiting in the parking lot. And rage over her lost earnings overcame her reason and sense of self-preservation.