Daily News | Former City Controller Alan Butkovitz says he was carjacked outside his Northeast Philly home
was carjacked at gunpoint Tuesday night outside his Northeast Philadelphia home as he returned from a city Democratic Party committee meeting, the longtime public official said.
Shortly after 8 p.m., Butkovitz, 70, had just arrived home in his 2012 black Ford Fusion and was talking on the phone with a friend when he heard a banging on his driver-side window and saw a man wearing a black ski mask pointing a gun at him, Butkovitz said in a phone interview. The assailant yelled “Get the f--- out!,” Butkovitz said, adding that he thought he was about to get shot through the window.Then the man drove away with his car. The entire incident lasted “less than a minute, might have been seconds,” Butkovitz said.
“I’m still adjusting to being alive,” Butkovitz said on the phone as he was being driven by a friend to speak with detectives.
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