Woman sprays gasoline at carjacking suspect in Tewksbury
Update: Tewksbury police announced Sunday afternoon that they had identified the suspect as William Tighe.
Carjacking Update: Suspect has been ID’d. We have an arrest warrant and seeking help in locating William Tighe, 32 yoa #Tewksbury. pic.twitter.com/4OGcZBmZJw
— Tewksbury Police (@TewksburyPD) April 2, 2017
Original post below:
Police are searching for the suspect of a Saturday night carjacking, in which a man drove off with a woman’s car while she was filling it with gas at the Circle K Mobil station in Tewksbury.
Surveillance video from the scene shows the woman spraying gas at the carjacker with the fuel hose as he jumps into the driver’s seat.
Video of carjacking that occurred this evening at the Circle K Mobil in #Tewksbury. Vehicle recovered, suspect at large.. (1/2) TPD30 pic.twitter.com/PX0YXDgLHe
— Tewksbury Police (@TewksburyPD) April 2, 2017
As the video shows, the suspect was able to start the car after a brief struggle and appears to drag the victim a few feet with the car while driving away from the pump.
Tewksbury police told The Boston Globe that the car — a red Mazda with New Jersey license plates — was located late Saturday night in Lowell, but that the suspect remained at large. K-9 units were conducting a search for the suspect on foot, police said.
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