carjacking

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Wednesday to a Texas inmate just one day before he was scheduled to die for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman during a carjacking in Houston. In an 18-page opinion filed Thursday, a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit […]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man posed as a woman on dating apps to lure men to a meeting place and then rob and carjack them, prosecutors said. Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office charged Hakeem Doeparker, 20, this week with multiple felonies, including second-degree robbery and criminal threats, attempted extortion and carjacking, The […]

A 64-year-old woman was pushed out of a moving car and carjacked near a church in Houston, Texas.  Kevin Chambers, 34, was arrested and charged in the crime. Authorities told ABC 13 ,that same night Chambers was at the Church of Lord Jesus Christ attending service when he tried to steal a church van. When he […]

A series of carjackings in Atlanta raises alarms for HBCU students in the city.

A Morehouse College student was carjacked in southwest Atlanta after a late night study session, reports the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The victim, who was reportedly a 20-year-old political science major, was on campus studying for midterms late Wednesday night. When he returned home around 4 a.m Thursday, two men in hooded sweatshirts approached him. Atlanta […]

A 14-year-old Florida boy has been arrested for carjacking an 81-year-old woman in front of a Walmart in Lauderdale Lakes. ABC Local 10 News reports that the boy’s mother Ramona Gordon turned her son in to the Lauderdale Lakes police on Friday, January 19 after seeing a video of him on television. According to a […]

Atlanta is a Mecca for Black people and the home of a brand new African-American mayor in Keisha Lane Bottoms. But unfortunately, Atlanta is also a hotbed for criminal activity, especially carjackings. In this latest case, though, a mother was very lucky that a quick trip to a gas station convenience store didn’t end in […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities were searching for the suspected gunman in a fatal carjacking near the University of Utah that caused a campus-wide lockdown late Monday, police said. University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy said early Tuesday that an injured woman came to the school and reported that her husband had assaulted […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Four men have been arrested on charges of murder, conspiracy and other counts in the carjacking death of a man shot in front of his wife outside an upscale mall in northern New Jersey last weekend, authorities said Saturday. The suspects were identified at a news conference as 29-year-old Hanif Thompson, […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man previously charged with having child pornography cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle before carjacking a woman, fatally stabbing her and raping her 10-year-old daughter, authorities said. David J. Renz abducted the school librarian and her daughter as they left a gymnastics class at a mall in the […]