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Authorities believe they've found the body of a Homestead woman who had gone missing after her carjacking at gunpoint in central Florida was caught on camera, and are searching for the suspects involved in her killing. Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvias was abducted Thursday after a witness recorded an armed suspect pointing a weapon at her at an intersection in Winter Springs, Seminole County Sheriff's Office officials said. The 31-year-old woman had left Homestead earlier in the day and drove north in a white Dodge Durango until she reached Seminole County. As she was driving, a green Acura rammed into...

LANDSDOWNE BOROUGH, Pa. (WPVI) -- An Upper Darby carjacking ended with a crash outside a police building in Lansdowne Borough, Delaware County early Friday morning. Following the crash, the front courtyard area of Lansdowne Borough Hall had uprooted plants, crashed street signs, overturned bricks, and muddy tire tracks. "It's the center of our town and now it's destroyed," said Lansdowne Police Chief Ken Rutherford whose police department is housed at the building on Baltimore Ave. and Lansdowne Ave. The scenario ended in Lansdowne, but it started a few minutes away in Upper Darby where police say a car accident turned...

Four men soon approached the Corolla in a silver SUV at about 4:40 a.m., brandishing firearms at Sims and her coworker and demanding they exit the vehicle, CBS News reported. "I started screaming my coworker’s name out," Jaquita Sims told the Chicago Sun-Times. A gun fight ensued as the 65-year-old, legally armed coworker pulled out his own gun and used the only five bullets he had to defend himself and Sims, the outlet reported. "They wanted to carjack them," Janice Sims said. "They just shot the car up maybe 20 times." The suspects fled, and the 65-year-old drove himself and...

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (KMOV) - Police have identified an alleged suspect who was killed and another who was arrested and now faces murder charges following an attempted carjacking early Saturday in Webster Groves. Webster Groves Police identified the alleged suspect shot and killed in the incident as 19-year-old Javion Bibby. His alleged accomplice, Ronnie Jewett, 18, has been charged with second-degree murder in his death. Under Missouri law, a person can be charged with murder if the death occurs during the commission of a crime they are an accomplice to. Jewett is also charged with armed criminal action, attempted stealing...

SAN ANTONIO – A suspected carjacker was unable to drive a stick shift and was shot by the victim while trying to flee early Thursday morning, according to San Antonio police. The incident occurred around 2:45 a.m. in the 2300 block of Observation Drive, not far from Loop 410 and Marbach Road on the city’s far West Side. According to police, a carjacker had stolen a vehicle and had to ditch it a few feet away because he couldn’t drive the standard transmission. Police said while the man ran to another suspect’s vehicle, the victim pulled out a gun and...

Sharon Hill police are investigating a carjacking outside the 7-Eleven at 1307 Chester Pike, with a gunshot victim. The call went out shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday for three shots fired outside the store. While en route, police learned someone was struck by the gunfire and there was a carjacking. The car that was taken, a 2010 silver Chevy Malibu, was found unoccupied a short time later at Poplar Street and Eggleston Circle in the borough. It was not yet clear who was hit by gunfire, though the police radio traffic indicated the owner of the vehicle shot at the...

BREAKING: Member of Congress was just carjacked at gunpoint at Navy Yard in DC Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

An MMA fighter is recovering after carjackers dragged him through the streets of Philadelphia. Egor Kostyuchenko, 25, was picking up food for his side gig as a food delivery driver, and left his 2008 Mercedes C300 running with keys in the ignition and driver's side window rolled down just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 5, according to police and those who knew him. Three men jumped inside of the car on the at 1000 block of Cherry Street, and drove down Race Street. Kostyuchenko grabbed onto the window of his car as the vehicle continued to speed away, the...

Mark Carlson now faces charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, theft of a motor vehicle, and fleeing a police officerA44-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly carjacking a family of four waiting in the drive-thru line at a Taco Bell in Green, Ohio. Mark Carlson, identifiable by the tattoos plastered across his head and neck, reportedly carjacked a vehicle in Akron earlier that day. However, he ran out of gas when the vehicle reached Green, according to a release from the Summit County Sheriff's Office. Carlson then allegedly tried, but failed, to carjack another vehicle before running across the road...

Monday, June 19, 2023 (Washington, DC) – Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Third District announce an arrest has been made and additional suspects are sought in reference to an Armed Carjacking (Gun) offense that occurred on Sunday, June 18, 2023, in the 2500 block of Sherman Avenue, Northwest. At approximately 4:17 am, the suspects attempted to carjack the victim at the listed location. During the attempt, there was an exchange of gunfire between the victim and at least one of the suspects. As a result, the victim and a suspect both sustained non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Both were located...

Things went poorly for an attempted carjacker in Chicago, Lor Lightfoot’s disaster of a crime-wracked city, with a fed up citizen taking matters into his own hands when dealing with an attempted carjacker. And someone else got it all on video, or at least alleged when recording the video that that’s what was going on. Watch the video of old fashioned justice coming to Chicago here:

Shortly after midnight, in the early morning of December 13, 2022, the owner of a 2022 Dodge Charger Hellcat was parking the vehicle in a driveway in Eastpoint, Michigan, a part of the Detroit metroplex. He was approached by more than one suspect in an apparent carjacking attempt. From Eastpoint Police and Fire Department:On December 13, 2022, at approximately 12:30 am, Eastpointe Police Officers were dispatched to the area of the 23 thousand block of Hayes on an attempt carjacking and shots fired complaint. The suspects approached the victim while he was parking his vehicle (2022 Dodge Charger Hellcat) in...

A Nevada woman took away a carjacker’s gun in Las Vegas, tried to flee, then ended up shooting the carjacker dead when he tackled her from behind, according to police. FOX News reports that the incident occurred November 19, 2022, but a police report was just released, providing details. FOX 5 notes that the woman and a friend pulled up outside a residence where a party was scheduled to occur. The woman and her friend were early, so they sat in the car to wait for the party to start. While they waited, two men with guns allegedly approached their...

A man was zip-tied at gunpoint and set on fire by at least three people who stole his vehicle in Northern California, according to the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office. The man called law enforcement around 10:55 p.m. on Wednesday night, telling deputies that his vehicle had been stolen in an area southwest of Yuba City, about 42 miles north of Sacramento, sheriff’s officials said. Responding deputies found that the man had been assaulted and burned, and emergency personnel took him to a hospital, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The man told deputies that he was driving...

by Joshua Ford | 24News Two teenagers attempted to rob and carjack the wrong family. The incident was caught on video footage available below. An armed Texas dad shot and injured two 16-year-olds who allegedly crept up behind the vehicles as the family was arriving at their home in Houston. The teenagers attempted to open the car’s rear door where two infants were seated — both only 1 year old. The mother was seated in front. The father fired several rounds and hit both suspects. His wife drove off in an attempt to get away. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said...

Missouri cops shot a woman five times as she tried to flee her arrest for a suspected armed carjacking — even though she had shown that she was unarmed and told them that she was pregnant, according to a horrified witness. “They shot her! Oh my God, they shot her!” a woman repeatedly cried out in footage she filmed in the aftermath of Friday night’s officer-involved shooting in Kansas City. “What the f–k!” she gasped as she filmed the shot woman on the ground. “Oh my God, they shot her and they still putting her in handcuffs!” Police confirmed to...

PHILADELPHIA, PA—The Philadelphia Police Department today confirmed Santa Claus was sleighjacked while trying to deliver toys to all the good little boys and girls in the city. "I parked to check Google Maps and suddenly there was this guy with a gun forcing me out of the sleigh," a tearful Claus told police. "I didn't have time to dig through my sacks of toys to get out a Red Ryder BB Gun and defend myself. It all happened so fast." "Ugh, I had over seven PS5s on that thing!" Claus says the sleighjacker pushed him out of the sleigh and...

Joe Biden called Democratic Representative Mary Gay Scanlon after she was carjacked in Philadelphia on Wednesday as its revealed the robbers ranged in age from 13-19. 'Is the president taking crime in big cities more seriously now that a Democratic member of Congress, Mary Gay Scanlon, has been carjacked at gunpoint?' Fox News' Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki at Thursday's briefing. 'Let me first say that we're relieved that she was not injured,' Psaki replied. 'And the president called her and spoke with her this morning, as well.' 'It is absolutely unacceptable for any American, whether...

A suspect in a Philadelphia carjacking was shot in the head after authorities say he was trying to rob a second person Monday night. The person-of-interest in the carjacking is in critical condition, NBC 10 is reporting. According to reports, around 6 p.m., two robbers stole a man’s wallet, cellphone and car at 10th and Spruce streets. Then around 8:40 p.m., they tried to rob another man at 18th and Callowhill streets, but that man pulled out a gun and opened fire, shooting one of the suspects, reports indicate. About 20 minutes later, police say a man in his mid-20s...

A Grand Crossing man stole a towing company’s truck and then called 911 himself because he was upset that the truck’s driver dared to pull a gun on him, prosecutors said. Elliott Scott, 22, is charged with aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, misdemeanor theft, and driving on a suspended or revoked license. “Mr. Scott called 911?” a befuddled Judge Charles Beach asked prosecutors after hearing their allegations. “Yeah,” Scott interjected. “Right.” Scott’s defense attorney quickly advised him, “it’s not best to talk about the charges” in court.