Seattle police detectives are searching for a suspect who stole the car of an 80-year-old woman who was walking her dog Tuesday morning, dragged her, then ran her over with her vehicle.
Just before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, August 20, police were dispatched to a report of a carjacking in a Seattle neighborhood.
When officers arrived on scene, they found a woman in her 80s receiving CPR from a passerby.
Despite life-saving efforts, she was pronounced dead, authorities said.
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A plumber tried to save the life of an 80-year-old dog walker who was killed during a carjacking in a Seattle neighborhood. (FOX13)
Police determined the woman was a dog walker in the neighborhood.
During the carjacking and struggle, she was dragged by the vehicle and sustained fatal injuries. Several passersby tried to intervene but were unsuccessful.
Several local residents He told FOX 13 And he told the horrific story.
“I heard a commotion and screaming. It sounded like a crash,” Laura Dinan, a neighbor who witnessed the carjacking, told FOX 13.
Dynan told police she was inside the home when she heard the sounds of a struggle with a man who was walking his dog.
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“I was out the front door before I realized there was a dog running down the street screaming,” Dinan said.
Dinan added that by the time he was able to get outside, the suspect was already behind the wheel of the victim’s blue SUV.
FOX 13 reported that Dinan saw a man chasing a carjacker with what appeared to be a baseball bat as the suspect ran over a woman with his SUV, leaving her injured and lying in the street.
“He was a plumber who worked nearby and happened to have a bat with him and was trying to save her,” Dinan said.
Dinan said the plumbers tried to smash the back window of the stolen SUV, damaging the windshield and allowing some of the dogs inside to escape.
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Seattle police are investigating as a homicide the death of a man walking his dog during a carjacking Tuesday morning in the Madison Valley neighborhood. (FOX13)
“The guy with the bat was smashing all the windows. The dog jumped out. It was total chaos,” Dinan recalled. “He had her car and her dog. There was no reason for him to run her over.”
Neighbors told FOX 13 the suspect also crashed into a car parked on the street.
The suspect fled the scene in a stolen vehicle and is still missing.
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Detectives with the Seattle Police Department are investigating the homicide of an 80-year-old woman who was walking her dog when she was robbed and run over in her own car. (Seattle Police Department)
Late in the afternoon, police received a call reporting a dead dog with puncture wounds near a blue recycling bin at the park. Police said a stolen SUV was also found near the dead dog and had been abandoned.
Seattle Police are actively searching for the suspect, but no arrests have been made.
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Dinan believes the woman likely died while trying to save a pet she was caring for.
“The dogs in the car were not hers, they were her neighbours’ dogs and she was definitely trying to protect them,” Dynan said.
Anyone with information leading to the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Seattle Police Department.
