Grandmother whose family was carjacked, shot at is worried gunmen may return to her home to 'retaliate'



A grandmother whose family was carjacked and shot at last week is worried that the gunmen who ran from the crime scene may return to her home in Jackson, Mississippi, to "retaliate."

"We have to get out of here. It's not safe. Especially not now, with all the news and stuff because their picture, it's getting out ... and I'm afraid they're going to retaliate," Heather Allen said, according to Fox News.

'I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof ...'

A doorbell camera caught the terrifying moment when the carjackers in broad daylight fired shots as they walked up to Allen and members of her family as they were saying their goodbyes in her driveway.

"I threw my hands up like, 'Hey, hey, hey,' and he just pulled me down," Allen recounted to WAPT-TV.

The station said Allen and one of her sons were outside the car parked in the driveway at the time of the crime — however, Allen's daughter, two grandchildren, and her oldest son were inside the car.

Video shows one of the suspects opening the driver's side door and pulling a victim in the driver's seat out of the car. That victim is Allen's daughter, WAPT said.

"They kept hollering, 'Give me the keys, give me the keys.' My daughter was like, 'My babies, my babies are in the car,'" Allen recalled to the station.

Allen also told WAPT, "He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face."

The station said Allen's son was able to get out of the car — and then she grabbed her grandchildren from the back seat. WAPT added that the whole time one of the suspects continued yelling for the keys.

As it turns out, though, the suspects were unable to figure out how to get the car to move, the station said.

With that, WAPT said Allen threw on the ground the keys to her own car, which was parked on the lawn. The station said the suspects then gave up on the car parked in the driveway and took off in Allen's car.

Allen added in her Thursday "Fox & Friends First" interview that "it dawned on me, I had my keys around my neck, so I took them off and threw them to [the carjackers] to get them out of my yard."

'It was very concerning to me because a threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone.'

"I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof. ... My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe. They are in Batesville right now," Allen noted to WAPT.

The family indicated that they've lived in the area for about three months — but now they want to move out of Jackson, the station reported.

"We can't stay here any more," Allen added to WAPT.

What happened next?

Jackson police found Allen's car about two blocks away from the crime scene — and only 40 minutes after the incident, the station said.

"The cop said that the car looks good, but it's in the impound lot," Allen explained to WAPT. "I can't get it until they investigate it for fingerprints."

Allen noted during her "Fox & Friends First" interview that she finally got her car back after going "back and forth" multiple times between impound car lots and the local crime lab.

"I had an opportunity to look at the video of Ms. Allen and her family being robbed and carjacked in their driveway," Police Chief Joseph Wade told WAPT. "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."

Wade added to the station that investigators have identified two persons of interest, but they are not in custody.

WAPT said those with information can call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.

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Carjackers in broad daylight fire shots as they walk up to family members saying their goodbyes in driveway



A doorbell camera caught the terrifying moment when carjackers in broad daylight fired shots as they walked up to family members saying their goodbyes in a driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, last week.

"I threw my hands up like, 'Hey, hey, hey,' and he just pulled me down," Heather Allen recounted to WAPT-TV regarding Friday's ordeal.

'He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face.'

The station said Allen and one of her sons were outside the car parked in the driveway at the time of the crime — however, Allen's daughter, two grandchildren, and her oldest son were inside the car.

Video shows one of the suspects opening the driver's side door and pulling a victim in the driver's seat out of the car. That victim is Allen's daughter, WAPT said.

"They kept hollering, 'Give me the keys, give me the keys.' My daughter was like, 'My babies, my babies are in the car,'" Allen recalled to the station.

Allen also told WAPT, "He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face."

The station said Allen's son was able to get out of the car — and then she grabbed her grandchildren from the backseat. WAPT added that the whole time one of the suspects continued yelling for the keys.

As it turns out, though, the suspects were unable to figure out how to get the car to move, the station said.

'I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof — he's even scared. My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe.'

With that, WAPT said Allen threw on the ground the keys to her own car, which was parked on the lawn. The station said the suspects then gave up on the car parked in the driveway and took off in Allen's car.

"I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof — he's even scared. My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe. They are in Batesville right now," Allen noted to WAPT.

The family indicated that they've lived in the area for about three months — but now they want to move out of Jackson, the station reported.

"We can't stay here anymore," Allen added to WAPT.

What happened next?

Jackson police found Allen's car about two blocks away from the crime scene — and only 40 minutes after the incident, the station said.

"The cop said that the car looks good, but it's in the impound lot," Allen explained to WAPT. "I can't get it until they investigate it for fingerprints."

Police Chief Joseph Wade told the station that his department is working to get Allen's vehicle back to her as soon as possible.

"I had an opportunity to look at the video of Ms. Allen and her family being robbed and carjacked in their driveway," Wade told WAPT. "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."

Wade added to the station that investigators have identified two persons of interest, but they are not in custody.

WAPT said those with information can call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.

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Historically black Mississippi churches set aflame on Election Day. Democrat candidate calls it 'terrorism' to 'suppress our right to vote' — then suspect is arrested.



Two historically black churches in Jackson, Mississippi, were deliberately set on fire early Tuesday morning — Election Day — authorities told USA Today.

There were five additional suspected arson cases in the city — and all seven occurred in the area of Jackson State University, a historically black public university, the paper said.

'We will not allow domestic terrorists to suppress our right to vote'

Mississippi Democrat congressional candidate Shuwaski Young released a statement early Tuesday morning calling the fires acts of "terrorism," USA Today reported.

\u201cMy statement on the church burning in Jackson, Mississippi on #ElectionDay. Go VOTE Mississippi. Just Go VOTE.\u201d
— Shuwaski Young for Congress (@Shuwaski Young for Congress) 1667915682

"This morning several churches were burned in Jackson, Mississippi on Election Day," the statement reads. "These cowardly actions invoke historical acts of terrorism when people are fighting for their right to vote and live peacefully as Americans and Mississippians. We will not be deterred and will not be intimidated. We will not allow domestic terrorists to suppress our right to vote. I ask all Mississippians to GO VOTE regardless of this decades-old intimidation tactic to suppress our votes today. Just go VOTE."

Suspect arrested

Suspect Delvin McLaurin was arrested Tuesday, USA Today said. The Hinds County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrested McLaurin in the evening after a tip from citizens in Terry near the Hinds-Copiah County line. Authorities said McLaurin will be transferred to the Jackson Police Department for further questioning.

Image source: Hinds County Sheriff's Office

A Jackson Police Department spokesperson said McLaurin is being charged with felony malicious mischief, USA Today reported, adding that the FBI is questioning him and McLaurin may face additional charges.

Officials began receiving calls about several fires starting around 2:45 a.m., the paper reported, adding that Jackson Police spokesman Sam Brown said McLaurin was in the area of the fires during the hours they were set.

House of cards tumbles

Young wasn't alone in his "suppress our right to vote" post following the suspected arsons. Other commenters underneath his post concurred — and took things a lot further:

  • "The layers of racist symbolism associated with burning churches… in Mississippi… on Election Day. When will this country wake up? This makes me incredibly sad…" one commenter added. "I’m guessing the terrorist/arsonist who did this thinks they’re a Christian and a patriot."
  • "... this what the SCLC fought against, the same white-hooded cowards are a product of 45's GOP, the most racist, corrupt treasonous administration in White House, anti-[Semitism], racism is their platform," another user said. "This act today says it all."
  • "This is beyond hideous. The hypocrisy is off the charts, too," another commenter said. "The burning was probably carried out by people who profess to be Christians."
  • "Domestic white supremacist terrorists will not suppress Democratic voters from voting!" another commenter declared. "But Still, Like Air We Rise ..."

Oh, and:

\u201c@forpetessakeny @shuwaskiyoung Yeah, mystery huh?\u201d
— Shuwaski Young for Congress (@Shuwaski Young for Congress) 1667915682

However, one commenter couldn't help pushing back against Young in light of McLaurin's arrest, saying "…except the suspect is a black man. You can stop the racial narrative now."

Incidentally, Young lost his congressional bid to incumbent Republican Michael Guest, the Clarion Ledger reported, adding that Guest was ahead of Young by more than 40 points with 94% of the votes in Wednesday.

The rest of the story

USA Today said fires were reported at Greater Bethlehem Temple Church, Epiphany Lutheran Church, the baseball field at Jackson State, a gas station, a location at Central Street and Dalton, a location in the 1100 block of Pascagoula St., and a location at Terry Road and Cherry Street.

Epiphany Lutheran, one of the oldest predominately black Lutheran churches in Mississippi, burned for more than four hours before the fire was put out, USA Today said.

Lloyd Caston, 73, an elder at Epiphany, was awakened around 4 a.m. by a call from a family member who lives in the neighborhood where the church is located, the paper said. Caston then headed to the church around 4:30 a.m. to find the building “fully enflamed," USA Today reported.

“I was hurt,” Caston told the paper of his emotions upon seeing his church on fire, adding that "it destroyed the church and everything in it."

Epiphany is 85 years old, USA Today reported, adding that renovations to the building’s interior were completed in March.

Fire also damaged Greater Bethlehem Temple Church, the paper said.

"We can't always understand why people do evil, but we know that ... it's our job to overcome evil with good. That's why we're committed to continue to help this community," Ervin Ricks, Greater Bethlehem's communications director, told WAPT-TV .

Jackson officials did not connect the fires with an attempt to affect Tuesday's election, USA Today reported.

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NBC gushes over Beijing Olympics as China shoots 'giant middle finger' to US



While NBC covers the Beijing Winter Olympics like the dutiful Communist propaganda machine that they are, China is using the opportunity to present a "giant middle finger to us all," Glenn Beck said on the radio program Friday.

Glenn played an audio clip of NBC's Savannah Guthrie describing the events at the Olympic Opening Ceremony, as a Uyghur chosen by the Chinese Communist Party co-lights the Olympic flame.

"This moment is quite provocative. It's a statement from the Chinese President Xi Jinping to choose an athlete from the Uyghur minority. It's an in-your-face response to the Western nation, including the U.S., who had called this Chinese treatment of that group genocide and diplomatically boycotted these games," Guthrie proclaimed.

WATCH: @SavannahGuthrie calls a reported Uyghur co-lighting the Olympic flame, chosen by Xi Jinping, \u201can in-your-face response to those Western nations, including the U.S., who have called this Chinese treatment of that group genocide and diplomatically boycotted these games.\u201dpic.twitter.com/NBRtIOROJt
— Jackson Richman (@Jackson Richman) 1643988496

"She ... plays into the propaganda of it all," Glenn said of Guthrie. "She couldn't say anything differently ... NBC wouldn't want her to because NBC is owned by NBC Universal, and they want their movies in China because we are no longer Americans at all. We have sold out to China.'" he added.

Glenn went on to note that the "Chinese people are not the enemy. The enemy is the Chinese Communist Party that plays for keeps. And they're playing for the whole world."

Watch the video clip below to hear Glenn explain why he think no American should be watching the blatantly Communist propaganda currently on our TVs.


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'I hope he's watching': Widow of slain NYPD officer slams Manhattan DA in emotional eulogy, says, 'We are not safe any more'



The grieving widow of a slain New York City Police Department officer called out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his soft-on-crime approach during her husband's eulogy Thursday.

What happened?

Speaking in front of a packed crowd at St. Patrick's Cathedral gathered for Jason Rivera's funeral service, Dominique Luzuriaga memorialized her hero husband before rebuking the city prosecutor for failing to protect him and others who wear the uniform.

"The system continues to fail us. We are not safe any more, not even the members of the service," she said, according to the New York Daily News. "I know you were tired of these new laws, especially the ones from the new DA. I hope he’s watching you speak through me right now."

The cathedral, whichad remained quiet out of respect for the fallen officer, erupted in loud applause in response to her strong words.

WATCH: Widow of @NYPDnews officer Jason Rivera slams @ManhattanDA though not by name: "We are not safe anymore. Not even the members of the service. I know you were tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new DA. I hope he's watching you speak through me right now."pic.twitter.com/zHPQ1scMgy
— Jackson Richman (@Jackson Richman) 1643386230

“I’m sure all of our blue family is tired too,” she added. “But I promise, we promise, that your death won’t be in vain.”

What's the background?

Rivera, 22, and his partner Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, were ambushed while responding to a domestic violence incident in Harlem last Friday.

They had received a call from 47-year-old Lashawn McNeil's mother, who told officers she was in a dispute with her son. Then, when they entered the house, McNeil opened fire on the two officers.

Rivera was pronounced dead at the scene. Mora was rushed to the hospital, where he died three days later.

Tonight, we mourn the loss of a hero officer \u2014 a son, husband, and friend. Only 22 years old, Police Officer Jason Rivera was murdered in the line of duty. We vow to #NeverForget Jason as his fellow Finest vow to honor his tremendous legacy of service & the ultimate sacrifice.pic.twitter.com/5zsx45XiM4
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPD NEWS) 1642830430

Mora and Rivera “were dedicated, courageous and compassionate officers, loved by many. The pain their families feel is immeasurable. We pray for them; we will be strong for them,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement.

At his funeral service, Rivera was posthumously promoted to detective first grade.

What else?

The officers' tragic deaths have renewed calls for Bragg's ouster. The district attorney was already under fire for his controversial “day one” memo, which directed his office to take a more lenient approach on prosecutions by dropping certain misdemeanor cases and not seeking pretrial detention except for in the most violent of cases.

On Wednesday, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul put Bragg on notice, warning him she's prepared to use her authority to force him to change his policies or remove him from office.

"I have options, but I will be monitoring the situation very closely," Hochul told the New York Post.

Bragg has since changed his tune on the law enforcement and criminal justice reforms.

In a statement following Rivera's funeral, Bragg said he is "grieving and praying for Detective Rivera and Officer Mora today and every day, and my thoughts are with their families and the NYPD."

“Violence against police officers will never be tolerated,” he added. “My office will vigorously prosecute cases of violence against police and work to prevent senseless acts like this from ever happening again.”