Report: Teen Tries Carjacking Grandma On Way To Chemo. Neighbors Beat Him Up.

A Washington, D.C. grandfather was on her way home from chemotherapy when he allegedly accosted her with a 15 year old boy armed and carrying a gun. He demanded her keys to her car and she struggled with the teenager. She called for help from neighbors, who then sent an ambulance to the scene.

According to reports, it occurred in the 22nd Street Southeast neighborhood.

“Next thing I know, he walked up talking about, ‘Give me your keys. I got a gun,'” The unnamed grandmother spoke. “I said, ‘Baby, you better shoot me, because you’re not taking my car.'”

“He pushed me to the door and I got up and I grabbed him and was hitting his a**, and hitting him and fighting him and I said, ‘You not going to take my car, youngin’,” The unnamed grandmother continued.

The grandmother presented 7News The scar that she sustained when the teenager tried to take her keys. The report does not give the woman’s age.

She remembered that neighbors helped her when she called for help. “They all came out to help me,” She said. The suspect fled across the street, but was captured by neighbors who pummeled the suspect.

“They caught him and I said, ‘oh, you going to jail today. You definitely going to jail, yes you are,'” The grandmother spoke.

“And they said it’s a wonder he wasn’t dead,” she declared. “On 22nd Street? He must didn’t know where he was. Nobody has seen this boy before.”

NBC4 reported In January, children as young 13 years old were named as suspects in Washington, D.C. carjackings. Police believe that these crimes increased during the pandemic. An average of 40 carjackings per day were committed between June 2020 and January 2023.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, there were 41 carjackings in Washington, D.C. between January 16 and January 13. There were two carjackings that occurred in Washington, D.C.: one by a teenage boy and another by a young girl. ‘They’re very young,” Sgt. Valkyrie Barnes stated.

“We witnessed a dramatic, just, decrease in the Department of Parks and Recs and their schools and sports programs were closed. You know, … legal guardians are trying to do their best to provide some level of supervision while also trying to make ends meet,” Barnes added.

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