Pinetown police arrested two suspects aged 19 and 20 in Pinetown for attempted carjacking. A 29 year old woman from Umlazi was sitting in her vehicle, a white VW Golf GTI at the parking lot on Chancery Lane in Pinetown when she was approached by an unknown man who pointed at her with an okapi knife and instructed her to get out of the vehicle.
The engine of the vehicle was off at the time and the woman was sitting with her eight year old daughter, the daughter opened the front passenger door and the woman threw the vehicle keys out of the passenger door. During the confrontation between the woman and the one suspect, another man came out of nowhere.
The woman’s daughter picked up the key from the ground and ran towards the shopping center, while the child was running the woman helplessly watched the second suspect chased her child and took the key from her.
At this point the woman got out of her car and started screaming for help.
The two suspects got into the woman’s vehicle and got ready to getaway, however to their calamity, the members of the public together with the shopping center security came to the woman’s rescue.
Both suspects were arrested by the community and handed over to the police.
They were charged with attempted carjacking and are expected to appear before Pinetown Magistrates’ Court soon.
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