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A carjacker stole a Los Angeles police SUV with a female cop still inside — before speeding off and crashing it just after the female officer was “ejected” and dragged down the road, according to officials. The unidentified officer was conducting “security detail” in downtown LA at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday when the man suddenly jumped into the squad car and attacked her, NBC LA reported. The cop was “ejected” from the vehicle at some point and fell onto the road as the suspect fled, police said. It was unclear if the officer was pushed, but she was dragged down...

An attempted carjacker is deceased after trying to target an Amazon driver in Cleveland, Ohio. The incident, which occurred on Saturday, raises questions about companies prohibiting their drivers from carrying firearms while performing their duties. The shooting occurred after the individual, later identified as 17-year-old Alquin Wells, approached the driver just after 4 p.m.A spokesperson from the Cleveland Division of Police confirmed the incident to 3News. According to a media release, the shooting took place at approximately 4:05 p.m. near the intersection of West 48th Street and Franklin Boulevard.An initial investigation showed that the Amazon driver was working in the...

Hilarious footage shows the moment a carjacker weirdly tumbles off the driver's seat in an Amazon delivery van just moments after he stole it. Dashcam video was released by the Houston Police Department's Robbery Division after a suspected carjacker targeted an Amazon driver and his delivery van. The dramatic incident took place at around 7 pm on November 16 as the deliveryman was dropping off a package at an apartment complex on West Airport in Houston, Texas, KHOU11 reported. The carjacker had approached the driver, threatened him with a gun and demanded that he hand over the keys to his...

NBC News just published this article, which is about a a heroic law abiding gun owner who shot and killed a 13-year-old serial armed carjacker in Washington D.C.:https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/juvenile-in-critical-condition-after-shooting-in-penn-quarter/3456217That article includes a link to this previous article, which details the many armed carjackings that had previously been committed by this 13-year-old when he was 12. Even though the police had him in custody, the district attorney decided to let him go.https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/12-year-old-accused-in-string-of-dc-armed-carjackings/3342708/Prior to his arrest and release, this juvenile delinquent had been committing several armed carjackings per week. Think of all the armed carjackings that this 13 year-old scumbag will never commit...

BOSTON — The man accused of killing three people during a notorious New England crime spree has died, surrounded by the prison walls he’s been staring at since 2001. Gary Lee Sampson was convicted in the murders of two Massachusetts men, Jonathan Rizzo and Phillip McCloskey, during carjackings in 2001 and for the killing of a New Hampshire man, Robert Whitney. The Bureau of Prisons shows Sampson, inmate number 23976-038, died on December 21 at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. In a statement, the BOP said “For safety, security and privacy reasons, this office does not...

A Houston man severely injured during a carjacking in May witnessed a similar incident on September 29, where a woman was dragged to death by a carjacker after her seatbelt had trapped her. He tracked down the suspect with a baseball bat and prevented him from fleeing until police arrived. On May 26, Lewis Matos was ordering car parts at his desk at AAMCO Transmissions when a car burst through the wall, trapping him underneath his desk. “Here I was, laying on the floor in horrific pain. I was pinned by this desk,” Matos said. The carjackers, Juan Mendez and...

A team of armed carjackers in Houston allegedly targeted the wrong person and one ended up getting shot in the neck after a shoutout with the intended victim.The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that they believe the same armed carjackers had previously shot a victim in another incident earlier Tuesday. That victim, who is in his 50s, said he was approached at a 7-Eleven gas station by two or three males attempting to take his truck. When he fought back, they shot him in the abdomen. Police responded to another shooting scene only 30 minutes later and about five miles...

A carjacker died after he accidentally blasted himself in the chest while trying to smash a window with the butt of his shotgun, an inquest has heard. Officers investigating the death of Reece Ramsey-Johnson said they were satisfied there was ‘no third party involvement’ as they closed the probe into his killing. Witnesses who saw the 22-year-old dying from gunshot wounds in the street outside a Lloyds bank in Sydenham on Sunday, September 8, said his own gun may have gone off when he used to to hit a car window. Opening the inquest at Southwark Coroner’s Court on Thursday...

NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KMOV.com) -- Emergency crews have recovered two people's bodies from Maline Creek Friday after an incident involving a stolen vehicle. Police say two 18-year-old men stole a vehicle. The owners of the stolen vehicle got into another vehicle and chased the suspects. Both cars ended up at Bellefontaine and St. Cyr Roads where the four got into an argument. Police were called to the scene and when they arrived, the two suspects jumped off a steep ledge into Maline Creek. The two never resurfaced from the water and search and rescue crews recovered their bodies.

A sudden outburst of mob justice Thursday night in Philadelphia ended with a carjacker dead and a 25-year-old man being questioned by police Friday after the thief's attempt to snatch a running vehicle -- with the man's children inside -- reportedly went awry.

A Texas mother said she didn’t think twice about shooting a would-be carjacker when the man jumped into her vehicle at a Dallas gas station while her two sons were in the backseat. Michelle Booker-Hicks was at the Shell station along Interstate 35 around 10 p.m. Wednesday when Ricky Wright, 36, attempted to steal her vehicle while she was paying her gas bill, police said. Booker-Hicks told FOX4 Dallas her two sons, ages 2 and 4, were sitting in the backseat at the time. “I proceeded to jump in my backseat and told the gentleman to stop, to get out...

SANTA ANA A carjacker from Orange has been sentenced to three years in prison after authorities identified him through DNA he left on a cigarette in the recovered car. Gary Munoz, 30, was arrested, charged and convicted in less than two months, thanks to the county’s RAPID DNA program, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a Tuesday statement. On March 9 at about 3:30 p.m., Munoz approached an idling car in a parking lot off of Imperial Highway in Brea, prosecutors said. A woman was in the passenger seat while the driver was out looking for an ATM...

Deputies told the station the person killed was 19 and was shoplifting diapers with three accomplices. They were loading the diapers in a car when a Walmart employee tried to stop them, the station reported. The shopper told deputies that he showed up at that point to assist the store employee. ... Deputies said after the gunfire the four suspects drove off and smashed into two cars. Three got away on foot. The one who was shot made it as far as a gas station across the street. ... The suspect was later pronounced dead.

A carjacker who led police on a high-speed chase on Dallas highways was attacked and wrestled to the ground by a woman furious that the man had hit her minivan with her 4-year-old son inside.

A car thief was forced to pull over after a couple miles in the stolen vehicle because twin boys, age 7, who were in the car attacked him, police said. “One of the boys was punching the man in the face; the other was hitting him with a rubber snake,” Sgt. Javier Salazar of the San Antonio Police Department told ABC News. The car was swiped from in front of the home of Lucia Lozada Thursday as the mother was standing just feet from the vehicle. Her twin sons and a 1-year-old were buckled into the car as the family...

Arabs continue to attempt carjackings in Judea and Samaria, and they continue to target female drivers, as they have in the past. The latest incident took place Thursday night. Rabbanit (Rebbetzin) Ofra Schmidt, whose husband is the rabbi of Shavei Shomron and heads the hesder yeshiva there, too, drove eastward out of Karnei Shomron at about 11:15 p.m., toward Shavei Shomron. Her three daughters were with her in the car. "In the second turn, after the road that goes up to Ramat Gilad, where there is gravel and narrow shoulders, a red vehicle was standing at the side of the...

Fuquay-Varina, N.C. — Authorities arrested a man whom bystanders say they hit with a frozen turkey when he carjacked a woman's sedan outside a Fuquay-Varina grocery store Sunday. The man stole money from a BP gas station at Ten-Ten Road and US. Highway 401 shortly before noon, Garner police said. He then crossed Ten-Ten to the parking lot of a Harris Teeter store and approached Irene Moorman Bailey loading groceries in her car. Witnesses told police that the man started beating Bailey in the face, trying to get her keys. “The lady was being beaten on the ground. She was...

A man who said he was leery of crime in his Olive Branch neighborhood chased down and shot a carjacking suspect Monday after discovering a man pointing a shotgun at his 71-year-old mother's head. The suspect, David Andre Bates, 18, of 6946 Bordeaux in Memphis, was charged with armed carjacking. Bond was set at $150,000. And authorities were weighing the possibility of charges against Keith Gray, who shot Bates in the leg after a dramatic chase along State Line Road. Bates was taken to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. The carjacking victim, Bobbie Gray, was shaken but not injured....

FRISCO -- Police are telling the public: don't do what Shirley Reed did. The 60-year-old woman turned the tables on a would-be carjacker and shot him with his own gun, detectives say. Officers responded to the Wade Crossing Apartments at 9399 Wade Blvd. in Frisco just before 8:00 p.m. Tuesday night. Reed says she was getting out of her car when a 19-year-old Charles Poursolanti approached her with a gun, fired it in the air, and demanded her car keys. ...

A suspect in a string of armed robberies is in police custody today after a woman reportedly fired at the man during an attempted carjacking Saturday. Police said Harold Levar Jeffcoat tried to carjack a man and woman as they were leaving the Two Notch Road Super Wal-Mart. The man told police the suspect pushed a gray pistol into his stomach and demanded the keys to the car. The woman reached into the car and pulled out a pistol from the glove box, the report said. She fired five shots at the suspect, who dropped the pistol as he ran...