SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - A San Antonio great-grandmother is recovering after a brutal carjacking this week.
She’s lucky not to have been more seriously injured, but her assailant later crashed her car and died.
Shirlene Hernandez, 72, was on her way to a Shell gas station Tuesday morning, something she does every day, to get a Diet Coke.
On her way inside, a man grabbed her, hitting her several times in the face in a tussle to take her keys. Hernandez said despite three men trying to tackle the attacker, he still got away with her car.
Not long after, police found her car on the interstate, totaled – and with the suspected carjacker dead inside.
“There’s a lot of people who would say what goes around comes around, karma. I did not think that; the only thing I got (was) really sad because he had died,” Hernandez said. “Now granted, he had hurt me, but the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery.”
Hernandez said she is still sore and beat up with a bruised face, but she is mostly OK. However, she is left without a vehicle.
Despite her age, she still works every day and needs a vehicle to get her there.
San Antonio residents created a GoFundMe page to help Hernandez buy a replacement car. With an initial goal of $5,000, the page has raised nearly triple that amount as of Monday afternoon.
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Similar_Candidate789 on April 19th, 2022 at 00:29 UTC »
We just had this happen in New Orleans just a few weeks ago. 72 year old woman carjacked outside of her work. Unfortunately she didn’t survive. 4 people, all juveniles, jumped her and maced her. She was in the car seat belted. She tried to get out. Her arm got caught in the seatbelt. Kid repeatedly punched her, she was screaming he could have the car if she could get her arm undone. As witnesses started to gather, fucker panics and floors the gas. She is dragged 4 city blocks, and her arm is severed off because she couldn’t get it loose. She died on the scene. Fucker took the car 10 blocks then tried to clean the blood with wet wipes.
Thank God this lady is ok. Fucker got what he deserved. Good riddance.
Wienerwrld on April 18th, 2022 at 21:46 UTC »
We had someone steal an ATV from our locked courtyard, who ran a red light and was killed by a car who had the green. His mother came to our house to complain that it wasn’t properly secured (it was), wasn’t properly locked (he used bolt cutters), and should have had working headlights. My husband: “it did have working lights, but he wasn’t using them, ma’am.”
JayZ_Wentworth on April 18th, 2022 at 20:03 UTC »
Wow. The exact same thing happened to my grandma. Except the assault part. Crazy guy maced a cop and stole their car. Had to ditch the cop car somewhere, so thats when he jacks my grandmas car. He was actually really helpful in getting her out of the car with her cane and purse. The guy also died in a wreck a few miles later. I ended up giving her my car and bought myself a new one. She wrecked it only a few months later unfortunately. But she's fine. No injuries in either event.