Chicago woman resists carjacking and ends up killing one teenage suspect and critically injuring another



A woman resisted a carjacking attempt in Chicago, Illinois, and wound up killing one of the alleged teenaged assailants and putting another in critical condition.

Chicago Police said the 35-year-old woman was waiting in her car at the intersection of Lake Street and Wabash Avenue during rush hour when two people approached and entered the car just before 5:45 p.m.

The woman resisted the carjacking and got into an altercation with the two suspects. The male suspect wound up behind the driver's wheel and crashed the Infiniti FX35 into a support pillar at a high speed. The two suspects and the victim were trapped inside the car, but Chicago firefighters were able to extricate all three.

One of the suspects, an 18-year-old male, died from his injuries at a hospital. The other suspect, a 17-year-old female, was critically injured and taken to Northwestern Hospital.

The victim was also in critical condition at Stroger Hospital.

A witness named Courtney Gordon, who worked nearby, described what he saw to WFLD-TV.

"Somebody just hopped out the car, said they were still in the car and the lady was yelling, trying to get people to come around and try to get the cops. But somebody just stole the car, but they did CPR on the person that was still in the car," Gordon said.

"It was pretty horrific, you heard the sound, it was a huge boom. I was closing up here at Dunkin' Donuts. It's just a huge boom and you thought somebody came through the windshield because you saw it shattered," he explained.

The deceased suspect was later identified as Elijah J. Treadwell of the Uptown neighborhood.

WBBM-TV reported that charges are pending against the surviving carjacking suspect.

Here's a local news video about the incident:

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16-year-old Chicago girl charged with 4 carjackings, all at gunpoint, driving off with a young child in back seat



A 16-year-old girl in Chicago, Illinois, has been charged with carjacking four separate drivers at gunpoint earlier this year, police announced on Thursday, adding that on another occasion, the juvenile offender even made off with a vehicle while a 7-year-old girl was still inside.

In a press release, the Chicago Police Department reported that officers arrested the juvenile Wednesday on the Lower West Side and charged her with four felony counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and one count of felony restraint.

Police listed the dates and locations of the crimes as well as the ages and genders of the victims.

In one incident that took place March 24, the girl allegedly carjacked a 60-year-old woman. The three other incidents took place within the span of four days between Feb. 18 and 21 and involved three male victims between the ages of 27 and 37 years old.

The defendant's identity has not been released due to her young age. Police said she was taken into custody without incident and is now awaiting a court date.

WMAQ-TV reported that the unlawful restraint occurred on Feb. 27 in Bridgeport when the suspect hopped in a running vehicle and drove off with a 7-year-old girl still sitting in the back seat. Citing police, the outlet said the suspect abandoned the vehicle a short time later on Archer Ave. with the child inside and unharmed.

The alarming news comes as juvenile violent crime continues to soar in Democratic-controlled cities across the country. Armed carjackings, in particular, have been on the rise in places like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

Local Chicago station WBBM-TV reported last October that during the first several months of 2021, more than half of carjacking arrests in the city were of individuals 17 years old or younger. Moreover, police struggled mightily to arrest carjackers in the first place, lodging just a 6% arrest rate.

In an attempt to understand what was driving the crime spike, WBBM sat down with a handful of teen carjackers to conduct anonymous interviews.

One of the interviewees, a 16-year-old girl, bragged to the station that she had committed at least six carjackings in recent months, but giggling, said she wasn't sure because she doesn't keep count.

The girl added that her gender is an advantage for her since people "wouldn't probably expect a younger-aged female to be out here carjacking."

She is likely not the same person as the other 16-year-old recently arrested, though, since her weapon of choice is a knife and not a gun.