A Mississippi family lives in fear that the armed carjacker who opened fire on them and nearly fled with their two young children will return with a vengeance.
The Allen family fears that the perpetrators, who are still on the run, will retaliate by showing the attack, which was caught on camera, on television news programs.
“We have to get out of here. It’s not safe, especially now with the pictures on the news and we’re scared of retaliation,” said Heather Allen, one of the victims in last week’s attack. He told “Fox & Friends First.”
Allen, who has lived in Jackson for only three months, said the incident was his final motivation to leave the city, which he describes as having a crime rate worse than Memphis, Tennessee.
In a daring broad daylight attack, two unknown gunmen pounced on Allen and her adult son as they stood next to their car parked in the driveway of their Jackson home.
One of the men fired shots at the family as he approached them, and they hid behind a car for safety.
“You’ll see me with my hands up,” Allen said.
That’s when one of the gunmen dragged her daughter out of the car, got into the driver’s seat and pointed the gun at her eldest son’s face.
Luckily, he followed his mother’s instructions and jumped out of the car and headed straight for the house, only for his mother to realize she had to jump back in to save her “grandchildren in the back seat.”
“[The carjackers were] “There were keys between her and my daughter and they were saying, ‘Give me the keys, give me the keys,'” Allen recalled.
“My daughter said, ‘They’re in the car’ and then I realised I had a lock around my neck so I took it off and threw it at them and chased them out of the yard.”
The video shows Allen throwing the car keys at the thieves, who then fled in the car, abandoning it just two blocks away, police said.
According to local reports, the horrific incident happened just 40 minutes after another carjacking took place on a nearby street.
The suspects remain on the run nearly a week after the incident, but Allen claims one of them was caught on video at a nearby store and is already under police surveillance.
Meanwhile, the Allens got their car back after multiple trips back and forth between the impound lot and the local crime lab, where police seized it for evidence.
