DC carjackings continue to rise, latest involving golf club and targeting food delivery driver
Heather Hunter
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The rise of carjackings in Washington, D.C., continues to become more violent.
The latest string of thieves attempted to attack with a golf club and continued the trend of targeting food delivery drivers in the district.
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Police are investigating an attempted carjacking that was reported on Monday afternoon. A driver noticed a black Toyota Camry following his vehicle. He pulled over his vehicle, and three suspects exited their vehicle in an alley and approached his vehicle.
The suspects attempted to pull him out of his silver Toyota Camry as he called for help and fought off the attackers. A bystander intervened, and one of the suspects pulled a golf club out of the black vehicle to attack the bystander but then retreated. The four suspects fled in their black sedan as witnesses captured the attack and posted it on social media.
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A food delivery driver was targeted last Friday while making a delivery. The victim was approached by four suspects in the southeast region of the district. The suspects made physical gestures to suggest they were concealing weapons and demanded the victim’s car keys. Shortly after stealing the victim’s car, they crashed the vehicle into a parked car and fled on foot. Police arrested two of the four suspects. The arrested suspects were 15 years old and charged with robbery and first-degree theft of auto.
Washington attorney Denise Rucker Krepp called on the parents of the juveniles to be arrested.
“The parents of the 15 year olds arrested for robbery and theft of auto should be arrested for child endangerment,” she said on social media.
The rise of carjackings by juveniles in the district made national headlines when Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar was delivering near Nationals Park and a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl carjacked his car, assaulted him with a stun gun, and crashed the vehicle with him still attached to the vehicle, killing him on impact. The teenagers received the maximum sentence in 2021.
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Democratic D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said earlier this year there is no crime crisis in the nation’s capital despite the “perception” of rising crime.
“With regard to crime, yes, there is considerable concern,” Mendelson told the House Committee on Oversight in late March. “But while perception is important, the reality is less concerning. Let me be clear: People should feel safe, and it is a problem that many residents of the district don’t.”