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15-year-old armed hijacker rescued from angry mob by the police.

A Washington, D.C., teen was sent to the hospital Friday after he allegedly tried to carjack a grandma headed to chemotherapy.

The incident unfolded around 8:30 a.m., in the 22nd Street Southeast neighborhood, and involved a woman who declined to give her identity but is known around the neighborhood as “grandma,” WJLA reported.

“Grandma” was on her way to get chemotherapy when the 15-year-old boy tried to carjack her, WJLA reported.

“Next thing I know, he walked up talking about, ‘Give me your keys, I got a gun.’ I said, ‘Baby, you better shoot me, because you’re not taking my car.'” (RELATED: Man Reportedly Shoots And Kills Suspect Trying To Carjack His Girlfriend Outside Florida Bar)

“He pushed me to the door and I got up and grabbed him and was hitting his ass, and hitting him and fighting him and I said, ‘You not going to take my car, youngin.'”

“Grandma” said she started calling for help and neighbors rushed outside to come to her defense.

“They caught him and I said, ‘Oh, you going to jail today. You definitely going to jail, yes you are,” “Grandma” reportedly said.

The suspect was taken away from the scene in an ambulance, WJLA reported, citing police.

“And they said it’s a wonder he wasn’t dead,” “Grandma” told WJLA. “On 22nd Street? He must didn’t know where he was. Nobody has seen this boy before.”

There have been at least 82 carjackings this year alone and just 14 arrests, WJLA reported, citing police statistics.

Coming our way?

Greenwich police warn residents that thieves are entering homes to take car keys and steal cars

On February 22, 2023, at approximately midnight, car thieves entered a home in the back county section of Greenwich to take the homeowner’s keys to steal their car from the garage.

When they entered the house, they triggered the alarm and fled.

The thieves then went to a residence on Round Hill Rd near the New York border.  The thieves used a garage door opener from an unlocked vehicle in the driveway to open the garage door.  The thieves entered the garage, grabbed two sets of keys, and stole the vehicles from victim’s driveway. Greenwich Police Detectives recovered the cars a few hours later in New Jersey. No arrests were made, and the case is under investigation.  

The majority of suspects stealing cars in Greenwich are from out of state. In response, the Greenwich Police Department has assigned Detectives to task forces in New York and New Jersey to identify and arrest the subjects committing car thefts in our area.

Greenwich residents’ habit of leaving the keyfobs in their expensive cars has drawn thieves into town like wasps to rotting fish. And, just as installing improved anti-theft devices in cars caused a huge rise in carjackings — a phenomenon that’s now seen around the world, even in New Zealand — criminals who find their luxury car shopping habits thwarted by locked vehicles may choose to enter homes to steal, rather than return to Newark or the Bronx disappointed. You do not want a burglar, probably armed, these days, in your house; you may well want a gun,