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The victim of a deadly carjacking in Inglewood, California, was identified Friday as a 63-year-old man from La Habra.

Cook County, Illinois, Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Sheriff Tom Dart are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to hold them responsible for the killing of a Vietnam War veteran allegedly at the hands of two accused criminals released from jail on electronic home monitoring.

A convicted sex offender in eastern Tennessee is accused of carjacking a woman’s vehicle, forcing her to drive to an abandoned home with her one-year-old child inside, and then raping her.

An investigation has been opened regarding the carjacking of a Philadelphia mother and her teenage daughter at their home last week.

A 2-year-old boy was found dead inside his father’s black SUV Tuesday, hours after the father was fatally shot and the SUV stolen, Houston police said.

Recently released video footage shows an elderly good Samaritan bravely attempting to stop a man who had just stolen a woman’s truck in Houston.

Two Florida teens were arrested for allegedly kidnapping, sexually assaulting, carjacking, and robbing a woman with a firearm, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

Two men from the Southside of Chicago were arrested Thursday for allegedly carjacking a 74-year-old man at gunpoint.

Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. was shot and wounded during a likely attempted carjacking on Sunday.

A would-be Chicago carjacker is in critical condition after a concealed carry permit holder opened fire on him Monday morning just before 1:30 a.m.

A carjacking suspect was fatally struck by a vehicle on a highway while he was trying to escape from authorities following a car chase, according to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD).

A Missouri City, Texas, police officer is described as a benevolent warrior after her encounter with a carjacking suspect who shot her three times. Despite her serious wounds, she got back up and engaged the suspect until she could no longer stand.

A convict who allegedly carjacked a woman eating lunch in her vehicle in Chicago was already on parole for shooting someone and on electronic monitoring after a firearm possession charge. 

A woman was reportedly carjacked at gunpoint recently and Chicago police revealed she was an off-duty officer. 

A faith leader was fatally shot outside her Memphis home during a carjacking on Monday, according to a local United Methodist Church conference.

Experts said car thefts are now “effectively decriminalised” in London as police charged less than one per cent of offenders last year.

A New Mexico mother recently threw herself on her vehicle while trying to stop the alleged carjacker who drove away with her two children.

A Chicago man is accused of stealing a car carrying three children while their father was retrieving a DoorDash order, per a report.

A Chicago judge was perplexed why a man was charged with a misdemeanor when the case sounded “more like an aggravated vehicular hijacking.”

An 81-year-old woman was carjacked while providing food to the homeless on Monday in Redlands, California.

An alleged carjacker was shot and critically wounded by a Chicago police officer after fleeing as officers attempted to make a stolen vehicle stop.

Toronto Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner was carjacked at gunpoint outside a movie theater in Toronto on Monday, according to reports.

Four teens will be tried as adults on second-degree murder charges in New Orleans after prosecutors said they carjacked 73-year-old grandmother Linda Frickley and dragged her down the street while she was still attached to her vehicle until her arm was severed. She died on the scene moments later, WWL reported.

A carjacker beat a Texas grandmother outside of a gas station before stealing her car and meeting his demise in a wreck, per a report.

Prosecutors in Washington, DC, are not pursuing charges against four suspects after police said they found a puppy stolen at gunpoint in their possession.

Philadelphia police are searching for four suspects who officials say shot a highly regarded community member during a carjacking Sunday.  

Authorities in Nassau County, Florida, said a suspect named Ivan Fox got into someone else’s truck outside a gas station while two young children were inside it.

Chicago Police officers arrested a man suspected of being part of a car theft ring after he misplaced his stolen car at O’Hare airport.

Police in New Orleans arrested four minors connected to a fatal carjacking that occurred Monday and Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said a 17-year-old boy, 16-year-old girl, and two 15-year-old girls were taken into custody.

A 12-year-old boy is accused of murdering a 70-year-old man during a December carjacking involving several young people in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday. 

Shocking surveillance footage caught the moment a reportedly pregnant woman was run over by her own car during a carjacking in Alabama.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Monday tied the city’s wave of carjackings to school shutdowns in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. 

A 62-year-old man who was visiting his mother in Northeast Philadelphia was shot and killed by a carjacker Sunday night.

There have been at least 140 carjackings in Philadelphia already in 2022 and we are still in the first week of February.

Democrat-run Washington, DC, witnessed 37 carjackings during the first 20 days of 2022.

There were over 100 carjackings in Philadelphia during the first 21 days of 2022.