Sanford, FL Mayor Carjacked; City of George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin Encounter

Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett in 2012.
(REUTERS/Steve Nesius)

[From article]
The mayor of a central Florida city was carjacked while standing outside his home, according to police who said Sunday they were hunting for a third suspect.
The incident unfolded in Sanford. The city made headlines in 2012 after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin at a gated community there.
Mayor Jeff Triplett was outside around 2:15 a.m. Saturday when three men approached, pointed a gun at him and stole his car keys, police said. They told reporters the suspects also stole Triplett's wallet before driving off in his Mercedes.
Triplett gave a detailed description of the suspects to police and 18-year-old Jermine Jacques Horne and a 17-year-old were arrested a short time later.

George Zimmerman is seen at left in his April 11, 2012, booking photo after being charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
(AP)

The third suspect has not been caught, police said. It was not immediately known if either suspect had a lawyer.
Police eventually found the mayor's damaged car, Fox 35 reported.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in February 2012, said he was defending himself when he killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The case sparked protests and a national debate about race relations. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges the next year, and the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute Zimmerman on civil rights charges.
Triplett said, "Being a victim of a crime is unnerving, yet it was reassuring to witness both speed and diligence from the Sanford Police Department."
Sanford is about 25 miles northeast of Orlando.

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Mayor carjacked at gunpoint in city where Trayvon Martin was killed
Published June 26, 2016

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Camden, NJ High School Students Sneak Out of School, Steal Car, Kill Grandmother, Return to School

Tia Walker, 53, of Camden, New Jersey (let and right) was killed after she was struck by a car driven by a 16-year-old boy in a hit-and-run crash in April, police said. She leaves behind two children and three grandchildren.

[From article]

A 16-year-old boy and another teen reportedly slipped out of school unnoticed, stole an unlocked car and killed a grandmother in a hit-and-run before at least one returned to school after the ordeal.
On April 25, classes had not begun at Camden High School in New Jersey when the teens sneaked out of the building without any of the school's 11 security guards noticing, Philly.com reported.
After making their exit that morning, the male teens spotted an unlocked silver Cadillac DeVille half a mile from the school, hopped in and started cruising around Camden's streets, police said.
At some point during their joyride the car was reported stolen, and when an officer started following the vehicle, the 16-year-old behind the wheel suddenly accelerated, police said.
As the car took off, it struck 53-year-old pedestrian Tia Walker, who at the time was crossing the street as she walked home after cleaning the house of an elderly relative, according to Philly.com.
The boys abandoned the car at a nearby median, fled the scene on foot and at least one returned to the high school, authorities said.
Walker was transported to Cooper University Hospital where she died the next day.
The 16-year-old boy has since been arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter among other charges.
It is not clear if the other teen will face charges and neither of their names have been released because they are juveniles.
Meanwhile, Walker's relatives are still trying to cope with her loss.
'I don't know what's worse: that we had to bury our sister or that these perpetrators were children,' Walker's brother, Brother Minister Wasim Muhammad, who also is a member of the Camden school board, told Philly.com.
'I just don't know which is the greater tragedy.'
While sad by such a tragic loss, Muhammad said he has forgiven the teens.
'These are misguided young people,' he told Philly.com.
'It's just a fact that it wasn't intentional. They weren't targeting my sister.'
Walker was a long-time Camden resident and for many years was a maintenance worker in City Hall, and also worked as a day-care aide, according to Philly.com.
She leaves behind two children and three grandchildren.
'She was just a beautiful soul,' her 23-year-old son, Juan Walker told Philly.com.
'She never had an enemy or any problems with anyone.'
Her daughter, Taneeyah, is getting married later this year and Walker had already picked out her dress for the special occasion. Her family said she was buried wearing it.
Following the incident, the schools spokesman said the district is working with prosecutor's office and the local law enforcement following the incident.
'We're pained by the tragic loss of a Camden resident,' Schools spokesman Brendan Lowe said.
Lowe also noted that the school is working to improve security at high schools across the district.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649212/New-Jersey-teen-killed-grandmother-hit-run-crash.html

New Jersey teens 'slipped out of their high school unnoticed, stole an unlocked car, killed a grandmother in hit-and-run crash, then went back to school'
A 16-year-old boy and another teen reportedly sneaked out of their high school and stole an unlocked car nearby in April
They then cruised the street's of a New Jersey city before they were followed by police and the driver suddenly accelerated, police said
That's when the car struck 53-year-old pedestrian Tia Walker as she crossed the street; she died the next day in hospital
The male teens abandoned the car and fled the scene on foot before at least one returned to school, authorities said
The 16-year-old has since been charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter among other charges
By MYRIAH TOWNER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:08 EST, 19 June 2016 | UPDATED: 12:10 EST, 19 June 2016

Somerville, MA Pedestrian Injured By Stolen Car Driver

[From article]

State police said the vehicle was stolen from a home in Melrose, and around 3:30 p.m. it was located traveling on Melrose Avenue. When other local and state police responded to the area, the vehicle fled the scene, officials said.
While police followed, the Jeep turned onto Lombardi Way, part of the ramp complex between Route 38 and Mystic Avenue, under Interstate 93. The investigation showed the Jeep went off the road, into the median and hit the 26-year-old man.
The two people inside the Jeep, who were identified as Arthur L. Woods IV, 18, of Arlington, and Elvira C. Sanchez, 19, of Malden, ran from the vehicle but were arrested a short time later.
State police said Woods was in possession of narcotics at the time of his arrest.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/man-hit-by-stolen-jeep-in-somerville/37035656

Man hit by stolen Jeep in Somerville
Two suspects face numerous charges
UPDATED 9:28 PM EST Dec 18, 2015

WCVB-TV Boston MA

Thoughtful Florida Gentleman Tries To Hijack Car With Two Armed Policemen Inside

[From article]

A knife-wielding Florida man who attempted a carjacking Thursday night quickly discovered that the vehicle he targeted was an undercover cop car occupied by a pair of armed plainclothes detectives, according to an arrest affidavit.
Dominique Albert, 27, allegedly approached the car on a St. Petersburg street around 9:45 PM and yanked open the passenger door. Albert [. . .] leaned into the auto while holding a steak knife in his right hand.
While Albert’s would-be victims were initially startled by the interloper, they quickly rallied.
“Police!,” shouted Detective Daniel Torok from the driver’s seat as he drew his handgun and leveled it at Albert, who “turned and fled on foot.”


Dominique Albert, 27
Torok and his partner then chased after Albert, who dropped his knife during the pursuit. When the cops caught up with Albert, he “fought Police with violence, but was finally taken into custody after a lengthy fight.” Albert, who allegedly continued to struggle after being handcuffed, stopped resisting after a backup officer “deployed his Taser.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/carjacker-picks-wrong-vehicle-786023

Carjacker Tries To Steal Unmarked Cop Car
Knife-wielding suspect was surprised by armed detectives
August 1, 2015

Armed Samaritan Saves Car Jacked Woman

[From article]
Perhaps the fact that dramatic surveillance video showed the victim being driven away while clinging to the hood of her car and the hero bystander pursuing with his gun drawn had something to do with it. And Atlanta, after all, is in the South, where the Second Amendment is especially popular. Such incidents are far less likely to occur in places like New York and Chicago, with draconian gun control laws, so television stations in those cities won’t have as many opportunities to run stories about crimes being foiled by gun owners.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/bystander_with_concealed_carry_gun_foils_carjacking.html

April 6, 2015
Bystander with concealed carry gun foils carjacking
By Thomas Lifson

Published on Apr 4, 2015

SMYRNA, GA (WXIA) -- An attempted carjacking was thwarted by a bystander Friday afternoon at a car wash at the corner of South Cobb Drive at Highlands Parkway.
Police said it happened at about 3:30 p.m. at the Fast Track Car Wash. Smyrna Police Officer C.D. Graeff says a man in his 50s approached a woman washing her car at the car wash, pulling a gun and attempted to take her car.
Graeff says that a witness, seeing what was happening, pulled out his own gun and shot the suspect in the shoulder.
A red minivan pulled up, Graeff said, and drove off with the suspect. The minivan was last seen headed onto Interstate 285, which is about three blocks away from the car wash.
Graeff said at this point, there is not an active search for the suspect, and that investigators hope the suspect shows up at a local hospital.
No other injuries were reported.

Man In Women's Clothes Shot Dead at NSA

[From article]
An NSA officer gunned down the unidentified pair after they crashed the Ford Escape into the entrance and then opened fire just before 9 am, according to NBC ’s Washington affiliate .
Federal officials said that both men were wearing women’s clothes and wigs at the time of the assault. Drugs and at least one gun were found inside the SUV, which the pair had stolen.
One of the gate-crashers died on the scene and the other was rushed to Baltimore’s Shock Trauma unit with potentially fatal injuries, authorities said.
An NSA officer was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
[. . .]
While there is currently no explanation of what motivated the attack, the FBI says the shooting is not believed to be related to terrorism. The incident was being treated as a “local criminal matter,” according to federal officials.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/30/shots-fired-after-suv-rams-gates-at-nsa-headquarters/

Man in drag killed after plowing into gates at NSA headquarters
By Chris Perez
New York Post
March 30, 2015 | 10:20am

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Mar 31, 4:58 PM EDT
FBI IDENTIFIES MAN KILLED IN NSA SHOOTING
BY MEREDITH SOMERS
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Home Driveway Robberies in Memphis, TN

[From article]
"As soon as I was about to put my key in, I just hear something come behind me real fast and I jumped and turned around and I had a big gun in my face," said victim Margaret Watkins.
Watkins and her 5-year-old daughter were held up at gunpoint in their own driveway by a man wearing a mask.
"I'm holding my baby...then he was like, 'Turn around turn around'...I guess my daughter was still looking at him he put the gun in her head," said Watkins. "And then he asks me the pin code to my bank card and I gave it to him. I was so scared I couldn't even lie."
Watkins says she's grateful to be alive, but she's definitely making some changes.
“I added locks, but I think I'm going to get some cameras,” said Watkins.
Officials arrested the two teens charged with aggravated robbery, among other charges, Friday afternoon.

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/28050075/police-arrest-two-teens-in-connection-to-driveway-robberies

Mother and child held at gunpoint; MPD makes arrest in driveway robberies
Posted: Feb 07, 2015 8:49 AM EST
Updated: Feb 08, 2015 11:14 AM EST
By Jerry Askin

WMC Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee

Illegal Alien Teens Car-Jack 91-year-old Veteran

[From article]

A car-jacking turns into a police chase which ends with two teens in custody.
Police say the two Guatemalans, 16 and 17, escaped a facility in Des Plaines around 6 this morning, hijacking a car there and making their way to Moline and Walmart.
Officers say that's where they ordered a 91-year-old veteran out of his car and took off in it, ramming another car on the way out of the parking lot.

http://www.kljb.com/story/26741686/men-carjack-91-year-old-vet-in-moline

Men Carjack 91-Year-Old Vet In Moline
Posted: Oct 08, 2014 11:13 PM EDT
Updated: Oct 08, 2014 11:13 PM EDT

NYC Man Carjacks Two Vehicles

[From article]
A gunman carjacked two vehicles in Brooklyn, hit a 75-year-old pedestrian and smashed into several parked cars before trying to flee from cops by blending in with a crowd that gathered near his last accident, police said.
[. . .]
Lawson, 30, who lives in Queens, was finally cuffed and investigators found a .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun nearby. He was charged with robbery, assault with intent to cause serious injury, burglary, reckless endangerment, weapon possession, driving without a license and leaving the scene of an accident.

http://nypost.com/2014/07/20/gunman-carjacks-two-vehicles-tries-to-flee-cops/

Gunman carjacks two vehicles, tries to flee cops
By Kirstan Conley
July 20, 2014 | 11:03am

Mercedes Preferred Car of Thieves

[From article]
Carjackers and thieves who are paid as much as $8,000 for an auto have been targeting luxury vehicles in New York and New Jersey and working with middlemen who load them into shipping containers for transport to West Africa, authorities said Feb. 27. Agencies including the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced charges that day against 29 people in connection with a theft ring.
“This ring we took down was a double threat,” acting Attorney General John Hoffman said in a statement that day. “Its members committed carjackings that put the public in grave danger, while at the same time, through their fencing and shipping operations, they created demand that motivated others to commit carjackings.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-16/mercedes-suvs-disappear-as-thieves-target-new-jersey-ny.html

Mercedes SUVs Disappear as Thieves Target New Jersey, NY
By Kelly Gilblom

Jun 16, 2014 11:11 AM ET

Bloomberg News

80-year-old Georgia Man Beaten in Attempted Carjacking

Creston Portis, 80


Suspect "Dexter"



Suspects "Esha" and "Rickey/Tray"

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/307534/40/80-yr-old-man-beaten-in-attempted-carjacking-in-East-Point

80-year-old man beaten in attempted carjacking
9:58 AM, Sep 25, 2013 

FBI Interviewed Dead Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect in 2011

In 2011 FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Killed During Police Chase in Watertown MA After Carjacking in Cambridge MA, and Shooting of MIT police officer.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/fbi_interviewed_tamerlan_tsarnaev_after_2011_tip

FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev after 2011 tip
Saturday, April 20, 2013
By: Associated Press
Boston Herald

Wife Laments Murder Of Husband By Parolee

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/motorist_double_deserve_speaks_tragic_wMHD74I62NNdNWI7B0d4UK

'He didn't deserve to die like this': widow of slain motorist speaks
after tragic double murder on Cross Island Parkway
By REUVEN FENTON, DOUG AUER and ANTHONY SULLA-HEFFINGER
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:05 PM, October 24, 2012
Posted: 7:21 PM, October 24, 2012

NJ Stolen Car Ring Busted, 200 Cars Recovered

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/feds_bust_car_theft_ring_in_ny_nj_Lammx1P2HVhX5gtnP4QhkI

Feds bust $6M car theft ring in NJ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:33 PM, May 23, 2012
Posted: 10:48 AM, May 23, 2012

WW II Vet Car-jacked, Bystanders Ignore Him

[From article]
"A World War II veteran said nobody helped him in the minutes after he was attacked and carjacked during daylight at a busy Detroit gas station and he had to crawl across a concrete parking lot to get help.
A roughly four-minute surveillance video shows 86-year-old Aaron Brantley struggling to get from the fuel pump to the gas station's door as people walked and drove by him Wednesday morning."

[Video embedded]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/no_one_stopped_to_help_passersby_vxyWQeBsOyj9kKhbbcWCFJ

No one stopped to help: Passers-by ignore beaten WWII vet
AP
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:45 PM, February 26, 2012
Posted: 4:25 PM, February 26, 2012

Car Theft Not Serious Crime in Boston

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_0713time_to_get_serious_on_illegal_aliens/

Time to get ‘serious’ on illegal aliens

By Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Wednesday, July 13, 2011