A grandmother whose family was shot and robbed of their car last week fears the gunman who fled the scene will return to their Jackson, Mississippi, home to “retaliate.”
“We need to get out of here. It’s not safe. Especially now that their pictures are out and they’re on the news and everything, I’m scared they’re going to retaliate,” Heather Allen said. Fox News.
“I can’t sleep. My eldest son’s anxiety has reached its peak…”
A doorbell camera captured the horrifying moment when gunmen approached in broad daylight and opened fire on Allen and his family as they were saying goodbye in his driveway.
“I put my hands up and yelled, ‘Hey, hey, hey,’ and he pulled me down,” Allen said. He told WAPT-TV.
According to the sheriff’s office, Allen and one of his sons were outside a car parked in the driveway at the time of the crime, while Allen’s daughter, two grandchildren and eldest son were inside the car.
Video Show One of the suspects opened the driver’s door and dragged the victim, who was in the driver’s seat, out of the vehicle. WAPT reports the victim is Allen’s daughter.
“They kept yelling, ‘Give me your keys, give me your keys,’ and my daughter kept saying, ‘My baby, my baby is in the car,'” Allen recalled at the police station.
“He jumped in the driver’s seat and I was standing outside looking in and he pointed the gun at my oldest son’s face,” Allen told WAPT.
Allen’s son was able to get out of the car, but she then grabbed her grandchildren from the back seat, WAPT said, adding that all the while one of the suspects was yelling for the keys.
But ultimately, the suspects didn’t know how to move the car, police said.
Allen then threw her house keys on the ground, according to WAPT. Own The suspects then gave up on their car, which was parked in the driveway, and fled in Allen’s vehicle, according to the sheriff’s office.
“I realized I had a lock around my neck, so I took it off and threw it,” Allen added in an interview on “Fox & Friends First” on Thursday. [the carjackers] To get them out of the garden.”
“It concerned me deeply because a threat to them and their families is a threat to everyone.”
“I can’t sleep. My oldest son is extremely anxious. My daughter is in shock, but my family is safe. We’re in Batesville right now,” Allen told WAPT.
The family had been living in the area for about three months but now wanted to move out of Jackson, the station reported.
“We can’t stay here any longer,” Allen added to WAPT.
What happened next?
Jackson police said they found Allen’s vehicle about two blocks from the crime scene just 40 minutes after the incident.
“The officer said the car is fine, but it’s in storage right now,” Allen explained to WAPT. “We can’t get it back until they run a fingerprint search.”
Allen said in an interview with “Fox & Friends First” that after multiple “back and forth” trips between the vehicle lot and a local crime lab, he finally got his car back.
“We had the opportunity to watch the video of Mr. Allen and his family being robbed in their driveway and their car being taken,” Police Chief Joseph Wade told WAPT. “It was very disturbing. Any threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone, so it was very concerning.”
Wade added to the station that investigators have identified two suspects, but none are yet in custody.
WAPT said anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.
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