A 73-year-old grandma was tragically killed in a dreadful carjacking in New Orleans when her arm and clothes were torn from her body after she was trapped by her seatbelt when the assailants drove off, in her vehicle, authorities stated.
Linda Frickey was carjacked by 4 teenagers about 1:30 p.m. Monday as she was leaving a business in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood, WWL-TV reported.
She was dragged for practically a whole block on North Scott Street, according to the outlet.
“Her arm was severed from her body,” police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said.
An eyewitness informed WWL-TV that the victim was trying to put something in her car when a person “jumped in and kicked her out and she got captured in the wheel well.
“I heard screaming, like, ‘You’re about to die’ screaming!” the witness said.
Neighboring resident Todd Eckernc stated he saw the speeding car dragging the lady by the seat belt.
“The door had closed on the seatbelt, and she was stuck in it … I got out of my vehicle screaming, ‘Please stop!’ Other neighbors were also screaming,” he told Fox 8.
Another neighbor who had been walking in the location described the gruesome, horrifying scene.
“She was screaming, and she was screaming to please let her go and then they slowed down and opened the door to kick her out,” Leanne Mascar said to reporters.
“As soon as I saw her, I screamed. I just started running for her — I thought if I could somehow, I don’t know what I could do, but I thought if I could dislodge her from this car … when I looked down her body was already there, and her arm was … It’s just not something you expect to see,” she said.
She was laying there naked, and I thought the indignity she simply suffered, it was already excessive,” Mascar added.
Her husband, Mark Mascar, informed the outlet:
“Just to sit beside a woman who’s a mother or grandmother and watch her fade away, as my wife said, we were praying.
“I was telling her to hang in there because every time I heard a siren, I was hoping and praying it was the ambulance. I kept telling her to hang in there, breathing, her eyes were moving. I’ve never seen something so horrific,” Mark added.
Cops recovered Linda’s car just 13 blocks away, but the four carjackers got away and are still being sought by police.
Next-door neighbor Mark Mascar said he ‘d “never ever seen something so dreadful.”Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Supporter by means of AP
Ferguson requested assistance from the public.
“Someone knew something before it was going to occur and now that it has occurred, you know that someone knows that information as well,” the police superintendent said.
Tim Levy of the Greater Mid-City Business Association informed WWL-TV that “in six months, we’ve gone from some very positive things in Mid-City to … fear. Citizens I talk to, they’re all buying guns.”
