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A man is suing the owners of Sunglass Hut and Macy’s after he was falsely identified as a suspect in a 2022 armed robbery at a Sunglass Hut in Houston, Texas. (Associated Press)

A Texas man filed a lawsuit against the owners of Sunglass Hut and Macy’s after he was falsely identified as a violent armed robber through facial technology.

Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr., 61, was visiting Sacramento, California, on Jan. 22, 2022. At the same time, two men barged into the Sunglass Hut in Houston about 2,000 miles away and robbed the store at gunpoint. One of the men forced two terrified employees into a back storeroom and told them to stay until the criminals left. The men got away with thousands of dollars worth of cash and sunglasses and fled in a vehicle with a stolen license plate.

As Houston police detectives were investigating, Anthony Pfleger, the head of security for Sunglass Hut’s parent company EssilorLuxottica, contacted them to say they identified one of the robbers through facial recognition technology. Murphy was their guy, Pfleger allegedly told the detectives. Murphy had also robbed the store on a previous occasion along with a nearby Macy’s, Pfleger said, according to the lawsuit.

One of the employees identified Murphy as the robber in a photo lineup, although the lawsuit claims the employee was “prepped” before seeing the lineup. Houston police issued a warrant for Murphy’s arrest and he was taken into custody at the DMV when he went to renew his license.

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