carjackings

Seven teenagers were arrested after a pursuit of a stolen car ended in a crash Monday night in Northeast, D.C., police said.

News4’s Jackie Bensen reports on the destructive crash caught on video after a car was stolen in Prince George’s County.

News4’s Shomari Stone has tips to keep people safe.

Federal and local prosecutors are coming together to keep carjacking offenders in the D.C. area accountable.

Carjackings are on the rise in the DMV, creating dangerous conditions for all drivers on the road and possible tragedy for the actual victims. Many of these offenders drive stolen vehicles across jurisdictional lines hoping to avoid punishment. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins explains how federal and local prosecutors are coming together to make sure these criminals are...

Drivers reported to Virginia State Police on Wednesday afternoon that a man struck their cars and punched them in one carjacking and an attempted carjacking.

D.C. is seeing a spike in carjackings as well a spike in juvenile suspects.

News4’s Cory Smith reports on the rise in carjacking cases by teenagers in D.C.

Two 13-year-old boys are charged with two armed carjackings that occurred blocks from each other Friday night in D.C. This comes almost a week after another pair of teens were accused of a fatal carjacking also in the District.

Residents are on edge after the crimes that happened in Northwest D.C. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

We’re learning new details in the deadly shooting of a teenager in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood over the weekend. News4’s Mark Segraves reports on the moments leading up to the shooting.

An 18-year-old was shot and killed in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast D.C. on Saturday night, and police are looking at a possible link to an attempted carjacking.  Isaiah Armstead, of Southeast D.C., died after he was shot multiple times in the 1200 block of Irving Street NE at about 9 p.m., police said.  Police tell News4 that Armstead...

D.C. police believe a victim died before his car was taken and he was left on the street.  Carjacking in the city of Washington is on a record-breaking pace. The District has had 76 of them this year alone, but none like this carjacking.  Police discovered Anthony Payne, 59, on the roadway Saturday morning on the 1600 block of Kenilworth…

A distrubing investigation in D.C. At first, it looked like a man had been carjacked and left for dead, but it didn’t take police long to figure out he died before the crime even took place. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

News4’s Shomari Stone reports on one brazen carjacking incident on the Beltway and another at a gas station.

Since the pandemic, D.C. has seen an influx in carjackings. Leaders are starting a task force to crackdown on the carjackings in the District. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

Police are concerned about a rise in carjackings in Montgomery County. It’s a crime that’s becoming so frequent, it even happed while News4’s Darcy Spencer was reporting on it.

Carjacking suspects are targeting delivery drivers who leave their cars running in D.C. News4’s Shomari Stone spoke with a carjacking victim about what happened to him.

D.C. police are warning drivers who bring food and other deliveries to people reluctant to leave their homes during the coronavirus pandemic about carjackings. D.C. police statistics show there has been a 19 percent increase in car theft this year compared to the same time period last year. At least three drivers have had their vehicles stolen in the...

Police in the District say car thefts are up, and it appears thieves are targeting the delivery drivers who have become essential workers, during this pandemic. News4’s Jackie Bensen went to a neighborhood where a number of the thefts have occurred.