An 18-year-old man and an 11-year-old boy have been arrested for carjacking a Virginia home health care nurse who was moonlighting as a DoorDash driver.
Deon Smith, 40, told WTVR that she was dropping off an order just after midnight on November 30 when she was approached by the two suspects as she returned to her car.
“The little one approached me. I was thinking he was asking for money or something, but little did I know he was pointing a gun at me asking for my keys,” said Smith.
“When he told me that he was going to shoot me I was like, ‘Are you serious? You want to kill somebody at your age,’” she said. “I was asking ‘Where is your mom?’ and ‘Why are you out here this time of night?’”
The teen — identified by police as Jahlia Henley, WRIC reported — got in Smith’s car and yelled for his accomplice to do the same.
“He was telling me to get in the car, but I refused to and so they got in the car and left,” Smith said.
Smith reported the carjacking, and an hour later, cops found her car, crashed and totaled. Henley and the unnamed child were still in the car and were charged with robbery after they were checked out at a hospital, WRIC said.
Smith said she was thankful to have survived and returned home to her 10-year-old daughter, but losing the car — which she’d just paid off in September — has made work difficult.
Friends have organized a GoFundMe to help her and daughter.
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[Featured image: Deon Smith’s totaled vehicle/handout]
