Crime And Law

Carjacking victim, 84: Suspects were ‘in the car, down the driveway, gone. In 3 seconds.’

DAYTON — UPDATE @ 8 p.m.

An 84-year-old Dayton woman is still black and blue and has pain in her wrists after two teens shoved her to the ground, snatched her purse and carjacked her earlier this month.

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“It was the car they were after,” the woman told News Center 7’s Sean Cudahy of the March 10 incident.

“Once they pushed me down they ripped my purse off my shoulder and start scrambling for my keys at the bottom of the purse, grab the keys, grab the phone,” she said.

It happened so fast, there was no time to think.

“In the car, down the driveway, gone. In three seconds,” she said.

The incident was unsettling, but one thing was certain. She had no doubt her car would be found because of its OnStar in-vehicle safety and security system that would track it.

EARLIER REPORT

Two teenagers are accused of offering to help an 84-year-old woman carry her groceries in Dayton before shoving her to the ground, snatching her purse and driving off in her car.

Kaleb Montril Lee, 18, was indicted Thursday for robbery, theft from an elderly or disabled person and grand theft of a motor vehicle in connection to the March 10 incident.

He remains held on $25,000 bond in the Montgomery County Jail and will be arraigned Tuesday.

A second teen, a 15-year-old boy, is being prosecuted in the juvenile system, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office. This news outlet is not naming him.

Lee and his alleged accomplice approached the woman after she returned to her Burroughs Drive home after grocery shopping. They reportedly asked if she needed help carrying her groceries before one suspect shoved her from behind, which knocked her to the ground. The other suspect grabbed her purse, pulling it from her shoulder. They then drove off in the woman’s car.

Dayton police tracked the stolen car using OnStar to a Salem Avenue residence and were able to identify the suspects after posting surveillance video on social media, according to the prosecutor’s office.

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