Victim in Beverly carjacking recounts incident as two suspects in custody chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Michele Pettiford needed to park her car on the street this week. Two weeks ago, she was carjacked in her own driveway and she couldn’t go back to the spot where robbers forced her to the ground behind her Beverly home and racked a gun pointed straight at her husband, Jeff, who ran out of the house to her screams. The thieves made off with the family’s 2012 Audi sedan, Jeff’s money clip and .
Jeff Pettiford says his family was “shaken up and anxious” when his wife and daughter were attacked and two of their cars stolen in a period of two weeks. “It was kind of surreal,” Pettiford told the Sun-Times.
Pre-Trial Release Denied For 2 Men Accused In Beverly Carjacking - Beverly-MtGreenwood, IL - Men accused in brutal carjacking that was captured on video are denied pre-trial release based on their extensive criminal backgrounds.
Authorities have charged two South Deering men in connection with a Nov. 2 carjacking that rocked the Beverly neighborhood. Chicago police said Damarri Conner, 20, and Kenneth Merritt, 26, were the men who took a car and personal belongings at gunpoint from a mother and daughter on the 9300 block of South Pleasant Avenue on Nov. 2. Conner faces one charge of aggravated vehicular hijacking, two .