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Carjackings skyrocket during pandemic in troubling nationwide trend
Last 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.
Updated: 11:27 AM PDT, April 09, 2021
Carjackings have increased by more than 100% in cities including Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. And, up more than 343% in Washington, D.C, the news outlet report
Violent carjackings have spiked nationwide during the pandemic in a shocking trend that is being driven in part by young teens who investigators say have “time on their hands,” CBS News reported.
The children, sometimes as young as 12, are targeting delivery drivers and people warming up their cars, authorities said. Last month, in Washington, D.C., Uber Eats driver Mohammed Anwar was killed in a brutal carjacking after his Honda Accord was allegedly stolen by two teenage girls.
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