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Dial H For Hero

(2,971 posts) Mon Apr 18, 2022, 10:49 AM Apr 2022

17-year-old carjacker shot in neck in botched carjacking

https://www.wwltv.com/amp/article/news/local/orleans/17-year-old-carjacker-shot-neck-botched-carjacking/289-b61e3dd8-744c-4ff8-9097-a6eb06369fca

NEW ORLEANS — A 17-year-old was hospitalized following a botched carjacking in which he was shot by a man he was allegedly trying to carjack.

Sources tell the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate, that the teen’s accomplice, also a 17-year-old, admitted to the attempted carjacking.

According to the report, the two teens allegedly pointed a gun at a 48-year-old man outside his home in the 500 block of Louisa Street and demanded his keys. The man told New Orleans police that he flung his keys and fired a single shot from his own gun before running to his home.

Shortly later, the two teens arrived at Tulane Medical Center, with one teen wounded and unresponsive. The teens face charges of armed robbery and illegally possessing a firearm.

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17-year-old carjacker shot in neck in botched carjacking (Original Post) Dial H For Hero Apr 2022 OP

They say botched like it was a bad thing. LiberatedUSA Apr 2022 #1

He will hopefully live. beemerphill Apr 2022 #2

Tossing keys... good idea. Lucid Dreamer Apr 2022 #3

Play stupid games.... n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2022 #4

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)

1. They say botched like it was a bad thing.

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Mon Apr 18, 2022, 01:34 PM

Apr 2022

Victim wins, one criminal loses badly.

Better headline.

beemerphill

(519 posts)

2. He will hopefully live.

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Mon Apr 18, 2022, 02:57 PM

Apr 2022

if he does live through this he will perhaps choose a different way to get cash. His partner in this endeavor should have already come to that conclusion. Thank heavens that the victim did not get hurt.

Lucid Dreamer

(589 posts)

3. Tossing keys... good idea.

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2022, 01:52 AM

Apr 2022

Tossing keys draws the BG away from the car owner. Skedaddle fast.

I go a step further. I have a Toyota key in my pocket that is for another long-gone Camry. That's what I throw.
It will fit in the lock but will not start the engine or unlock doors. That gives the owner [me] a few steps to find cover.

Hopefully that will save my car and keep me from starting a gunfight.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,593 posts)

4. Play stupid games.... n/t

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Sat Apr 23, 2022, 08:26 AM

Apr 2022

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