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Recognize this Renton purse snatcher?

RENTON, Wash. — Renton police want to identify a man accused of stealing a 75-year-old woman's purse.

KIRO 7 obtained surveillance pictures from the police department's Facebook page so the public can help identify the suspect.

Police say the man waited near the front of the Safeway store on South Third Street Friday night.

When the woman turned her back he grabbed her purse from her shopping cart.

Investigators ask anyone who recognizes the man to call Renton police.

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