The incident shocked the well-to-do community of Bethesda, Maryland, town with a low crime rate that sits close to Washington, D.C., and ended in a life sentence for its perpetrator, Brittany Norwood.

Norwood and her victim, 30-year-old Jayna Murray, worked together at Lululemon Athletica, a high-end yoga apparel store with a yogi lifestyle vibe. However, Murray and several other employees began to suspect that Norwood had shoplifted yoga pants and fragrance products. Some reports say that Jayna Murray had in fact found merchandise in Norwood's bag and confronted her about it. She even called the manager of the store to report the theft, saying, "We caught the bitch."