BALTIMORE — A single mother working to deliver packages for Amazon is in the hospital and requires surgery after she was carjacked and then hit with her vehicle.
The victim, identified as Chelsea Nicolette, was making the deliveries when during a drop-off, she heard her car door slam shut, WMAR reported. When she turned around, she saw a man behind the wheel of her car driving away.
The car was started using a push button, but the keys were not inside the vehicle. A neighbor’s doorbell camera captured the moment when the suspect came back in the car looking to get the keys from Nicolette, WBAL reported. The video shows the vehicle driving up as someone steps toward the street. While the video does not show Nicolette being hit, the driver is seen leaving the car, grabbing something, and then getting back in to drive away, WBAL reported.
Nicolette was hit while she was on the phone with police, reporting that the car had been stolen.
“After being thrown from the impact, lying in the street whimpering, she was approached by the assailant who said, ‘Where are the keys [expletive]?’ before ripping them off her belt loop and driving away,” Tiffany Nicolette, the victim’s sister, told WBFF.
Neighbors who heard the crash immediately ran to help.
“She was right there in the gutter, lying next to the storm drain, curled up on her side saying, ‘Help me, help me. Somebody, please help me,’” Barbara Rosenthal, a neighbor who called 911, told WBAL. “I was very fearful for her. She looked terrified and in pain.”
The victim’s family told WMAR that Nicolette has a broken hip, broken pelvis, broken shoulder, broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
The family has started an online fundraiser to raise money, saying on the GoFundMe donation page that because the injuries were classified as a “nonaccident,” Nicolette is fighting with her insurance company to cover her expenses.
Baltimore police said in a news release that officers are investigating the attack, and no arrests have been made.
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