It happens in a flash.
One minute, motorists in the District of Columbia are checking their phones at red lights or parking on residential streets. The next moment, they have gun-toting carjackers demanding their keys — or their lives.
“Unfortunately, it’s pretty widespread. We don’t have a specific area where they’re occurring,” Carlos Heraud, assistant chief of the MPD Investigate Service Bureau, told The Washington Times. The congressman said three young males wearing masks approached him with guns drawn and demanded his white Toyota Crossover.calmly complied and let the crooks take his ride, along with his phone and luggage. The car and the rest of his belongings were recovered in the Barry Farm neighborhood in Southeast less than two hours later.
“No, I don’t think Navy Yard has seen a greater increase than any other particular neighborhood in the city,” he said.Chief Heraud said perpetrators often roam in a previously stolen car when they target someone idling at a stoplight or by a curb.Authorities don’t know why the number of carjackings has exploded in the past three-plus years. The chief told The Times that most carjacking suspects exercise their right to remain silent.
Some researchers say the spike in violent thefts was one of the unforeseen consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Carjackings are a lot easier,” he told The Times. “Stick a gun in somebody’s face, demand their vehicle, they get out, you get in, it’s over. Within a minute, you have exactly what you want.”
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