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Carjackings skyrocket during pandemic in troubling nationwide trend
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Updated Apr 8, 2021 7:05 PM EDT
The number of carjackings has exploded during the pandemic. Carjackings have increased by more than 100% in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. They are up more than 343% in Washington, D.C.
In Washington, D.C., cellphone video showed Uber driver Mohammad Anwar trying to regain control of his Honda Accord after two teenage girls carjacked him and assaulted him with a Taser. The incident ended with Anwar's car on its side and the 66-year-old Pakistani immigrant and father of three dead.
Mohammad Anwar was remembered by his family as a beloved grandfather, father, husband, brother and uncle.