Police say the suspect escaped police in a stolen car but ditched it and was trying to take other cars as officers closed in.
GASTONIA, N.C. - A grandfather in North Carolina says he’s still hurting after fighting off an attempted carjacking by a suspect whom authorities say was running from police.
Clarence Jones, 81, didn’t get a chance to play the lottery when he pulled up to a Citgo in Gastonia, but he still feels fortunate. He soon found out he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.Police say 30-year-old Jared Clinton escaped police in a stolen car. He ditched it at the gas station and was trying to take other cars in the parking lot as officers closed in.Police say that’s when Clinton saw Jones in his red Kia with the door partially open and the window down.
“He was cussing, and he tried to come snatch at my door on the right side. Then, when he went to pull it, I pulled it,” Jones said. “He was trying to pull the door open and me, too.” Suddenly, Jones was in a tug-of-war with a man almost a third his age and desperate to get away from officers about to pounce.The 81-year-old says he put the car in reverse, stopped hard then drove forward. That shook Clinton free, and police moved in to arrest him.
Jones says his shoulder is still sore after the incident, but he is otherwise OK. He says he has lived in the Gastonia community for 50 years and never had anything like this happen to him.Clinton is being held in jail on a $250,000 bond.
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