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Several emergency officials are responding to Elkins High School for a possible report of an officer being shot. A suspect reportedly is on scene and is on foot, but has not yet been captured. Emergency scanner traffic indicates the suspect is described as while male, possibly in his 50s, with a brown T-shirt and glasses. Police have locked down the school, blocked the Beverly 5-lane and are searching the area, including local stores. Police also are searching for a possible suspect in an attempted carjacking in the area behind Kmart, and it is unclear if it's the same person. Additional...

Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell announces two 14-year-old girls pled guilty in Family Court Thursday to Sunday's carjacking at Ashley and Mingo Streets. Ravenell explains "The 21-year-old victim was giving the two girls, she did not know, a ride on Sunday evening because it was raining. After stopping at a house, one of the suspects got out of the vehicle to knock on the door. When that suspect returned, she pulled the victim out of the vehicle, threw her on the ground and kneed her in the head. The suspect got into the victim's vehicle and drove off. Officers located...

A 3-year-old is back with his parents after he knocked on a stranger's door in the middle of the night following the hijacking of his father's car at a Colorado Springs, Colo., convenience store with him in the back seat.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A woman had her car stolen at gunpoint in San Francisco early Friday morning by a man she met at a sex club in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, police said. The carjacking was reported about 4 a.m. near the intersection of Seventh and Howard streets. The 38-year-old victim met the suspect, a man in his 20s, at the Power Exchange, a sex club located at 220 Jones St. After the pair left in the woman’s car, a 2006 green BMW 325i, the suspect pulled out a handgun and told the woman to get out of...

A 25-year-old man is without his car today after it was stolen by a suspect wielding a hammer on Saturday morning in Pacific Beach, according to San Diego Police. The victim had bought some food at the In and Out Burger near 2900 Damon Street and pulled over on the side of the road to eat it when the suspect approached his vehicle just before 1:30 .am., said Officer David Stanford with SDPD. The suspect, described as being in his late 30s to early 40s, reportedly displayed a hammer as it were a handgun and demanded the victim get out...

Len Cutter woke one morning earlier this year to find his late-model Honda Civic had some reconstructive work done. The rear window was laying, broken, across the rear seats, although nothing inside the car was taken. As it turns out, the thieves were after his roof rack. "They're going to break into my car and steal a roof rack?" he said. "Gimme a break." Cutter, of Long Beach, California, fell victim to a common trend in auto thievery: components are now more attractive than the car itself. Vehicles are getting harder to steal outright, especially given massive advances in anti-theft...

The pair traveled to Monterrey to visit family. About a mile over the border at the busy intersection of Boulevard Luis Donaldo Colosi and Vincent Guerrero Avenue around dusk.The couple waited at a red light when all of a sudden a sedan blocked them."Two doors on one side opened and all I could see was four or five guys with guns," the husband said."I heard 'get out of the car or I'll kill you guys,'" the wife said.The couple got out of their four-door pickup truck. Before the thieves pulled off, they directed the couple to remove their two dogs...

Late last night, a white truck with flashing blue lights pulled over two vehicles on the Katy Freeway at the Grand Parkway in west Harris County. At least two men got out of the truck wearing what appeared to be police uniforms. They also had guns. They robbed the victims of one of their cars and also took cash, cell phones and other belongings.

According to Capas, the man said that at about 8:30 a.m., he was making repairs to his company truck near the Cavot Road exit, just west of the New Mexico State line, when a gray colored 80s model pickup truck pulled up behind him. Two Hispanic men, described as 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet seven inches tall with dark hair and mustaches, approached the vehicle as if to offer some help, Capas said. After the driver finished the repairs, he said he was punched in the face by one of the men while the other man brandished a...

The families of a Jersey City couple are grieving after the two young people were killed during what authorities are describing as a botched carjacking. Michael Muchioki, 27 and Nia Haqq, 25, had just returned from their engagement party in New Brunswick when they were gunned down at around 3 a.m. this morning a few doors down from their Randolph Avenue home. "There were great together," Amanda Muchioki, 31, said about her brother and Haqq. Erastus Muchioki, 58, Michael's father, called the killers "animals." "They did not need to do this. This was done in cold blood," Erastus Muchioki added....

KIRKLAND, Wash. - A car-jacking suspect messed with the wrong vehicle Friday night in a Kirkland parking lot. A pit bull rescued earlier from an illegal dog-fighting ring was sitting inside in the car - and that dog wasn't taking any more passengers. The dog's foster mom, Amber Melena, explains what happened. She says Victor the pit bull was due to be put down a few months ago after he and more than 20 other dogs were found living in horrific conditions - beaten, forced to fight and chained inside filthy kennels. But a dedicated rescue group believed this dog...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Airports are often the scene of emotional moments, but few could top the reunion that took place Sunday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. "I'm happy they're here," Ashley Thill said while holding back tears. "But I could have lost my parents." Her parents, Al and Susan Thill, were making their annual drive from western Wisconsin to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico last week. But they didn't get past northern Mexico. While driving through the north-central Mexican state of Durango on New Years Eve, the Thills said they were chased, first by one car that eventually disappeared, then by another car....

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NEW HAVEN — SNIPPET: "Thompson was charged over the weekend with the June 6 carjacking at Church and Chapel streets and is under investigation for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail over the fence at the Yale power plant at 18 Tower Parkway June 7. He told Detective Wayne Bullock that Allah instructed him how to “melt down” the plant, according to documents filed in court Monday. It didn’t cause any damage." SNIPPET: "Police recovered the stolen Nissan Sentra. After Thompson’s confession, bomb technicians spent hours in a wooded grove near the Kimberly Avenue bridge after he claimed he had buried...

A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to 70 years to life in prison for carjacking former state Senate leader Don Perata and firing a shot that left a young boy paralyzed. ... During that robbery, Adams fired a shot that went through the wall of a nearby building. The bullet struck then 10-year-old Christopher Rodriguez while he was taking a piano lesson and paralyzed him.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN—Michael S. Welch, Special Agent in Charge of the Indianapolis Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying an individual responsible for carjacking a 21-year old female from the Columbus, Ohio area and forcing her to travel into Indiana. At approximately 11:00 a.m., June 17, 2009, a 21-year old white female from the Columbus, Ohio, area, was driving a 2002 4-door Saturn, silver in color, bearing Ohio license plates, when she was stopped or approached by an unknown male who forced his way into her vehicle. The unknown individual displayed a...

Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=97899 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Carjacking Information CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Mexico 26 Feb 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 20 Feb 2009 TRAVEL ALERT: MEXICO 17 Feb 2009 MEXICO 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: YUCATAN PENINSULA 13 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: MONTERREY (MEXICO) EXPECTS DEMONSTRATIONS 6 Feb 2009 MEXICO 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: CIUDAD JUAREZ 4 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: CIUDAD JUAREZ RISING DRUG VIOLENCE, CAUTION ADVISED U.S. Consulate General Ciudad Juarez issued the following Warden...

Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=96983 "YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Georgia Carjacking; Concerns over Highway Travel CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Europe - Georgia 7 Feb 2009" SNIPPET: "U.S. Embassy Tbilisi issued the following Warden Message on February 7: The U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi would like to inform American citizens that an armed carjacking occurred February 7 on the main east-west highway near Igoeti. The vehicle was taken to South Ossetia and a telephone belonging to one of the victims was used to make a ransom demand. While this believed...

GREENSBORO - A federal grand jury on Monday indicted one of two men accused in the slaying of the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, adding on to state murder charges. Demario Atwater, 22, was indicted on one count of carjacking resulting in death, and carrying and using firearms during and in relation to carjacking, both of which could allow federal authorities to seek a death sentence. State prosecutors had already charged both Atwater and Laurence Lovette, 17, with murder in the March 5 death of Eve Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga. Her body...

FLORISSANT — An off-duty St. Louis County police officer shot and killed a man Sunday in an alleged attempted carjacking in front of the officer's Florissant home, police said. Shortly after 12:30 p.m., police said, an armed 18-year-old man approached the off-duty officer who had just gotten out of his car. The officer was in his driveway in the first block of Claire Drive near New Florissant Road, police said. The gunman approached the officer and demanded the keys to the officer's blue Toyota Camry, police said. Florissant police Lt. Tim Lowery said the officer wrested the handgun away from...

Saturday, August 30th 2008 Johni Maziku, a 27-year old man, was killed Saturday night outside the capital city, Nairobi during a car jacking attempt. Maziku directed U.S.F.K (United States For Kenya) a small-independent US born program to bring kenyan refugee's of ethnic violence a second chance to life in East and Central Africa. He would have turned 28 in October. Maziku who was not a native born kenyan, recently returned to Kenya after his brief stay in Albany, NewYork to handle some affairs concerning his younger sister Saamya Maziku. Saamya Maziku, a wildlife biologist who fled the country after the...

CALIFORNIA (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Police out in California say they still can't believe their latest bust. A pick-up truck thief lost his stolen Chevy to a car-jacker. Officers say Edward Bishop stole the truck Saturday, then stopped at a 7-11 to grab some things. While he sat in the parking lot a guy with a gun hopped in and told him to start driving. When the truck ran out of gas a little later Bishop says the car-jacker told him to get out and push. Instead he ran away and called police. Officers arrested him and the car-jacker.

A 31-year-old woman was shot when she tried to flee an armed robbery attempt Tuesday night in Mid-City, police said. The woman was shot in the chest, but the wound apparently was not life-threatening, police said.

A team of gunmen shot and killed Lucky Dube, an international reggae star and one of the nation’s best-known musicians, apparently in a carjacking attempt late Thursday that underscored the continuing peril of violent crime here. As the provincial police commissioner appointed seven veteran investigators to chase down the attackers, President Thabo Mbeki called on the nation “to confront this terrible scourge of crime, which has taken the lives of too many of our people, and does so every day.” The police said Mr. Dube, 43, was shot by three assailants in Rosettenville, just south of downtown Johannesburg... The attackers...

FORT LAUDERDALE: As the lunch rush started Monday, waiter Juan Canales stopped a carjacker from taking a woman's Honda CRV out of the parking lot where he worked. Hours later he lost his job.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Lionell Rodriguez had been out of prison only three weeks, paroled after serving less than five months of a seven-year term for burglary and cocaine possession, when he and a cousin decided to act out some crime fantasies they'd seen in movies. When their plan to rob a service station was foiled because too many people were around, they drove around Houston, eventually pulling up at a stoplight next to a dark-colored car driven by Tracy Gee. The 22-year-old assistant manager of a tennis pro shop was returning from work and just a few blocks from home...

METAIRIE, La. - A 17-year-old boy foiled an attempted carjacking, wrestling a gun from a would-be robber and shooting him after the man grabbed his mother, authorities said. Carl Chestnut, wounded in the head and torso, will face armed robbery charges once he is released from East Jefferson General Hospital, Col. John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said Monday. The 53-year-old woman, whose name wasn’t released, and her son were in the drive-through line at an Arby’s Roast Beef Restaurant early Monday when Chestnut, 44, walked up and pointed a gun at her, demanding their money and the...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A $10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the safe return of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, who was forced into her car at a Target store on Saturday. "Every indication is, it’s been an abduction," Overland Park Police Chief John Douglas told FOX News on Tuesday. "So far, our best information is coming from the surveillance video." Police viewed the footage Monday. The video shows Smith, of Overland Park, Kan., leaving the store around 7:10 p.m. She had put pac

Police arrested 22-year-old Deontae Edward Bradley in Warren last night, just hours after the video first aired. (Video of attack at story link) PROSECUTOR CHARGES IN BEATING AND CARJACKING OF 91 YEAR OLD MAN Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy charged Deonte Edward Bradley, 22 of Detroit in connection with the violent assault and carjacking of 91 year old Detroit resident Leonard Sims that occurred at 8:35 p.m. on May 4, 2007 in the parking lot of the Stop and Go Liquor Store located at 3206 W. McNichols. Mr. Sims parked his 2005 Chevy Malibu in the parking lot of...

(World War II Veteran Savagely beaten and carjacked) I am home sick today and turned on Fox to see a savage beating of a World War II Vet, age 91 years old by a 22 year old POS in Detroit, MI. I was suprised to do several searches on FR and didn't find an article. Please post any updates to this outrage and be sure to think before you post.Please post any printed articles you find on the outcome of the case, oh, and Moderators, this is FRONT PAGE news and on every cable channel this morning, so please don't...

Excerpt - NAIROBI, Kenya - Gunmen carjacked a U.S. Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Saturday and killed two women in the car, police said. "The thugs ordered the two women out but they hesitated," said Isaiah Osugo, a criminal investigations officer in Nairobi. "Then they were shot." Francis Munyambu, Nairobi's deputy provisional police officer, said the carjackers escaped with the embassy vehicle and were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The men had carjacked another vehicle earlier in the day, he said. ~ snip ~

Police are indebted to a woman who shot an armed carjacker in a Wal-Mart parking lot Saturday — a suspect in nine other armed robberies, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. Harold Levar Jeffcoat, 29, was arrested Sunday at Providence Hospital Northeast after seeking treatment for a gunshot wound in his buttocks. Police said a man was shot as he attempted to rob a couple getting into their car outside the Two Notch Road Wal-Mart about 9 p.m. Saturday. The male victim, whose identity wasn’t disclosed, told police the attacker pushed a gray pistol into his stomach and demanded...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A fourth person was arrested Friday in connection with the killing of a young man, whose burned corpse was found dumped along railroad tracks, and the death of his date, who was kept alive for days and raped, authorities said. All four suspects were being held on federal charges, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said. Two were arrested in Knoxville and the other two in Lebanon, Ky. The victims, Christopher Newsom, 23, and Channon Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student, were last seen Saturday night while on a date. The two had been at a friend’s...

A Superior Court judge in Ocean County yesterday rejected three motions made by the attorney for accused killer Michael LaSane, who sought to have his 10-year-old case returned to juvenile court, get three charges dismissed and have his trial moved to another county. Two months before LaSane is scheduled to stand trial in the 1996 suffocation death of teacher Kathleen Stanfield Weinstein, Judge James Citta began sorting through issues that until now had been avoided because of LaSane's original plea bargain in the case. LaSane's newest attorney, picking up from where the last of a string of lawyers had left...

A 16-year-old girl suspected of leading a good Samaritan to two men who beat, stabbed and carjacked him has been arrested, deputies said Friday. The girl, whose name wasn't released because of her age, was arrested about noon Wednesday in the 26500 block of Fresno Street. She was booked into San Bernardino County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of attempted murder, carjacking and possession of stolen property. The 33-year-old Highland victim remained hospitalized Friday with stab wounds to his chest and arm, said San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beavers. Investigators said the man feared for his safety and asked that...

Bloomberg's Car Stolen, Aide Beaten By Thieves (AP) NEW YORK A personal employee of Mayor Michael Bloomberg was beaten by thieves who then carjacked the billionaire's car Wednesday morning in New Jersey, authorities said. The employee was driving the 2001 Lexus in Hackensack, N.J., on an errand for the mayor shortly before 9 a.m. when he was approached by a woman who came to the window to ask for money, police said. As he declined and began to roll up the window, a man got into the passenger seat and punched him in the face. "They force him out and...

A 22-year-old Merritt Island man accused of stealing an elderly couple's car was captured Saturday after authorities used the vehicle's On Star emergency system to track him down, according to Local 6 News. Jamal Williams allegedly stole the car of Ed and Irene Sierzant of Melbourne Saturday. The pair, who are in their 80s, were pumping gas when Williams allegedly approached the couple with a gun and demanded the car. The report said after the vehicle was stolen, the pair called police. The couple's 2006 Chevy Impala, which was equipped with the OnStar system, helped police quickly locate the car...

...committed the crime because he was frustrated by poverty plaguing the black community "I felt like maybe this will wake up people," he said. "When you come from the lowest of the lows." Scott, who has served previous prison time, said he envisioned a life of struggle and trouble with the law.

RUTLAND, Vt. — The first man sentenced to death in Vermont in almost 50 years is now on death row at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute. On Tuesday the federal Bureau of Prisons listed Donald Fell as being in transit. By late Wednesday he was listed as being held in Indiana, the site of the federal government’s death chamber. “This was going to happen,” said one of Fell’s attorneys, Alexander Bunin. “Typically, that’s where people facing a (federal) death sentence are held.” “He was ready for it,” Bunin said. “He was prepared to go and he was ready to...

A woman was killed during an attempted carjacking early this morning in East Dallas. Police said the crime happened around 1:30 a.m. in the 500 block of South Carroll Ave. near Interstate 30. The unidentified victim was shot during an attempt to forcibly steal the SUV in which she was riding. Police said that the victim's husband was driving the car and was attempting to escape from the carjackers when one of the men apparently fired, striking the woman. The victim subsequently died at nearby Baylor University Medical Center. Police suspect the same group of three unidentified men tried to...

Harris County prosecutors decided to file aggravated robbery charges in a deadly carjacking because the evidence did not show the attackers intended to kill a little girl, a key element for a murder charge, officials said. "It doesn't sound like a serious enough charge — maybe that is what people's perception is," said Di Glaeser, chief of the major offender and special crimes unit of the Harris County District Attorney's Office. "I think, that if these people are guilty, they should receive the most serious punishment and that would be aggravated robbery." Charged with aggravated robbery were Bakari Holland, 18;...

Police are searching for two men who carajcked a family's SUV overnight and then ran over the family's toddler as they took off, according to television news reports this morning. The theft happened on Jensen near Sadler in northeast Houston as the father pulled into a car wash parking lot to use a payphone. He was then approached by two men, who demanded money and then the family's SUV. The suspects allegedly told everyone to get out of the car, including three young children. Police told television reporters that the child was run over in the confusion. The toddler was...

SACRAMENTO - Two people were charged Tuesday with robbery and car-jacking, a day after a dramatic shooting in which a police officer shot and killed a driver of a fleeing car while clinging to its hood. The officer, Kevin Howland, was treated for a bruised knee and ankle after the shooting Monday afternoon in a crowded outdoor shopping mall in Sacramento's Natomas Marketplace, Sgt. Terrell Marshall said Tuesday. Three surviving suspects were arrested after the car hit a palm tree near a fast-food restaurant. A 16-year-old male and an 18-year-old male were charged Tuesday and the third suspect, an 18-year-old...

DANVERS, Mass. -- A Lawrence man was charged with murder Friday after he allegedly tried to steal a car and the owner was dragged and killed while trying to stop him, police said. NewsCenter 5's Jorge Quiroga reported that the incident happened on Route 114 in Danvers Thursday night. Roy Dowds Jr., 31, pleaded not guilty in Salem District Court to charges of murder, larceny of a motor vehicle, subsequent offense, leaving the scene of an accident after causing personal injury and death, operating under the influence of liquor and operating with a suspended license. "(Dowds) conceded that if it...

A 34-year-old San Diego man put the hammer down on crime last night. Just before 8 p.m., the man got into his car on National Avenue near 35th Street and would have been on his way except another man in his 20s tried to carjack him, attempting to pull the victim out of the driver's seat, according to San Diego police. The victim refused to budge, so the carjacker started beating him with a rubber mallet, police said. “But the victim takes the rubber mallet from the bad guy and starts beating him with it,” said Sgt. Bob Dare. “The...

Two women in Orange County, Fla., fought off a suspected carjacker by tackling and then pinning the man to the ground on his stomach until deputies arrived, according to a Local 6 News report.

A man opended fired today at a church..still at large, very few details

Hijackers stab ambulance man07/01/2006 21:41  - (SA)     Related Articles Armoured ambulances for Jhb Man 'hijacks' ambulance    Cape Town - A Tygerberg Hospital "Patients Transport" has been hijacked, Cape Town police said on Saturday. The Toyota Hi-ace minibus, fitted to transport outpatients was on its way from Tygerberg hospital to Eersteriver hospital with a passenger just after noon. "On the corner of Kleinvlei Avenue and Hidalgo street, (in the area of Kleinvlei), an unknown man got into the vehicle on the passengers side. The suspect stabbed the driver (a 31-year-old man from D section, Khayelitsha) once in the left upper...

(Judge) Barrett postponed a decision on whether to order Doirado to undergo testing to see if he is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Meanwhile, immigration officials are looking into deporting the Brazilian, who they say has lived illegally in the U.S. for nine years. Doirado, 28, is charged with kidnapping a 25-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Framingham on Dec. 17. He allegedly raped the woman several times over two days, much of it spent at a Plymouth motel, and threatened to kill the boy with a knife if she resisted.

NEW WAY TO CAR JACK (NOT A JOKE) Please keep this circulating... You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car, and get inside. Then you start the engine and shift into REVERSE, and you look into the rearview mirror to back out of your parking space and you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window.