- Heather Allen and her family were ambushed at their home Friday night.
- Shirtless Thug Fires Warning Shot, Pulls Daughter Out of Car
- Allen threw his keys on the ground so they could take his car.
The moment two armed thugs brazenly stole a family’s car from their own front garden while the girls were in the back seat.
Heather Allen and her family were ambushed while it was still daylight at their home in West Jackson, Mississippi.
Some family members were about to leave when suddenly a shirtless robber and his accomplice ran onto the lawn and fired a warning shot into the air.
Allen and one of his sons were outside the car and hid behind it, waving their keys as they scurried away to keep the car between them and the thieves.
Heather Allen and one of her children were outside the car and hid behind it, waving their keys as they scurried away to keep the car between them and the thieves.
Heather Allen (pictured) describes the carjacking in detail with the thieves still at large.
The shirtless man opened one of the back doors and pulled Allen’s daughter from the car as they demanded the keys in the attack around 7.30pm on Friday.
Allen’s other son and two very young granddaughters were still in the car when one of the thieves climbed inside.
“They kept yelling, ‘Give me the keys, give me the keys.'” “My daughter told me, ‘My babies, my babies are in the car,'” Allen said. WAPT.
“He (one of the car thieves) jumps in the driver’s seat, I’m outside looking in and he points a gun in my oldest son’s face.”
Allen’s son jumped out of the car and she went to the other side of the car to open the back door and pick up her granddaughters while her sons took them away.
The shirtless man opens one of the back doors and pulls Allen’s daughter out of the car while demanding the keys.
Allen goes to the other side of the car to open the back door and pick up his granddaughters while his sons took them away.
The thieves seemed frustrated with the situation and managed to start the car, a black Mazda sedan.
Allen decided to resolve the situation by throwing his own keys on the ground so they could take his car.
Their tactic worked and the car thieves stole the silver hatchback and sped off the grass and onto the street.
‘I’m not sleeping. My oldest son has anxiety through the roof, he is even afraid. “My daughter is in shock, but they are safe,” Allen said.
She said her family was staying out of town and that the entire family was making plans to leave Jackson after moving just three months ago.
One of the suspects in a photograph released by police as they chase car thieves.
Allen decided to resolve the situation by throwing his own keys on the ground so they could take his car, which they took and drove off in his silver hatchback (pictured).
The thieves barely used the vehicle, since it was found by the police just 40 minutes later, two blocks from his house. He is being checked for fingerprints.
Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said two suspects, one of whose photos have been released, have been identified but have not yet been arrested.
“I had the opportunity to watch the video of Ms. Allen and her family being robbed and kidnapped in their driveway,” he said.
“It was extremely disturbing to me. It was very concerning to me because a threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone.”
