HOUSTON – A video released Tuesday shows a robber snatching a woman’s purse and dragging her down an escalator at the Galleria in Houston.

According to KTRK in Houston, the suspect got into a burgundy-colored four-door Buick and fled the scene.

Officials tell KTRK a woman asked the victim a question in an attempt to distract her, when the man snatched her Chanel purse.