Posted on 07/05/2005 11:45:10 AM PDT by kristinn
Prince George's County resident Synetra Mendheim and her father, Terry, had noticed the car as they headed toward her white Mazda Millenia that Sunday morning, but they thought the men inside were waiting for a parking place.
It was 3:30 a.m., and Synetra Mendheim, 25, was going to Reagan National Airport for a flight to South Africa, where she would join other missionaries from her church to work with young AIDS patients. Terry had driven up from Virginia Beach to drive her to the airport.
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As Synetra Mendheim reached for her keys, three car doors opened and a shotgun cocked.
"Get on the ground! Get on the ground!" a man shouted, pointing the gun at her father. Synetra froze. Terry got on the ground and called her name.
"I thought, 'This cannot be happening,' " Synetra Mendheim said in an interview. "When my dad called my name, it snapped me back. I lay on the ground in an almost fetal position. I was so scared. I just wanted to curl into a ball so that I could protect myself."
The April 24 carjacking, in the 7200 block of Jaywick Avenue in Fort Washington, was among 337 such crimes reported in Prince George's County as of June 30, a 47 percent jump from the 229 carjackings reported at the same time last year. In 2004, Prince George's reported the highest number of carjackings in Maryland: 563, compared with 492 for all of the state's other jurisdictions combined.
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"Carjacking is one of the highest priorities, along with homicides and other violent crimes," said Vernon R. Herron, the county public safety director. "It's terrifying. When someone is carjacked at gunpoint or by force, they are traumatized. It is something they will always remember.''
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Part of the reason crime has gone down in D.C. is that criminals have migrated to greener pastures in next door neighbor P.G. County. It's run by Democrats, of course.
It is appalling that Americans live like this, but until they rise up and demand their right to self-defense be respected, they will always be victims.
Someone tried to steal my car last night, bent my steering column to hell. I have to get a rental this afternoon.
At least they weren't successful. Chances are you'd have never seen it again.
Sigh. That part of the world used to be pretty quiet.
wait until the "latino" craze of kidnapping ordinary citizen for $50 ransom starts in in loco L.A. ---- Amnesty! Coming to a neighborhood near you!
This has been a pretty bad month, first my corporate card and now this.
btw, I am in Fairfax Co.
Most of the violent stranger crime in this area is by born Americans. The Latino gangs like MS-13 generally keep it in the family, so to speak.
No mention of a description of any perpetrators in this article. Has me wondering....
The Washington Post is politically correct. Most of these crimes in P.G. are black on black. There is a photo accompanying the story of a black woman who is one of the carjacking victims.
Fairfax County isn't know for violent crime. The murder rate is extremely low. They've got their share of hoodlums, though.
A big part of the reason why we moved.
Many well educated, professional black families moved to P.G. in the 90s looking to create the next Montgomery and Fairfax Counties. Unfortunately the problems of D.C. have invaded and threaten to overrun it.
As far as I ever knew when I lived in DC (15+ years ago), every single acre of Prince George's County inside the Beltway was a no-go zone. All of it. And for the most part, I kept my fat happy white ass out of it, except when I had to go there for something (which was rare). I had hoped it had gotten better.
I was visiting friends over the weekend down around Blacksburg, and one of them had come down from the DC area...she lives in PGC, Brentwood, I think. 35ish single white female professional, who (I think) lives alone up there. She's crazy, and she knows it, but she couldn't afford anywhere else.
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I be too!
If she and the many other good people of all races could legally defend themselves, the crime problem would melt away.
It's all of those roids.
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