DOUGLAS — A woman who was carjacked early Saturday morning has found her car with more valuables in it than when it was stolen.
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, was attacked and carjacked at gunpoint at 12:20 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Prairie Shores Apartments, 2851 S. Martin Luther King Drive.
“When I got out of my car he was standing in front of me,” the woman said.
She said the man in a baggy red shirt demanded her keys, but she refused, saying she thought he was “crazy.”
She said the man then pulled a handgun and again demanded her keys. She ran, but he caught her, tackled her and pulled her keys out of her hand before driving off with her car, she said.
The woman’s brother-in-law said police were able to track down the car Sunday in the 7800 block of South Keeler Avenue and found inside a pile of $20 bills, a bag of marijuana, a wallet with a man’s ID still inside, a cellphone, a brush and several receipts.
“I think he ditched it, but I think he planned on coming back,” the brother-in-law said.
The woman said nothing of hers from the car was taken or moved, and she’s perplexed by what the final plan for the car could have been, but is unsettling to be driving it again.
“Initially, I refused to drive the car because I felt violated,” the woman said. “I couldn’t even get in the car. It took me awhile.”
She said she had been warned about the dangers of crime in Chicago when she moved from New York City a month ago for a clinical rotation and chose to live in Prairie Shores because of its promises of security.
“I don’t understand why the crime is so bad here. Either the people don’t care, or the police don’t care,” she said.
She said to top it all off, when her brother-in-law rushed to come help her on Saturday morning immediately after the carjacking, his car was towed from in front of the apartment building while he was trying to console her and talk to police.
“After my time is done here, I’m never coming back,” she said.
Police said Monday there have not been any arrests in connection to the carjacking.
