Police: Teens were 'tired of walking' before carjacking, dragging woman

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman says she was carjacked and dragged beneath her car this week in DeKalb County.

The woman was vacuuming out her car Wednesday around 5 p.m. at a car wash on Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain when she said two teenagers kicked her out.

“The guy in the back, he started kicking me in the face to kick me out of the car,” said the victim, who did not want to be identified.

Surveillance video shows the suspects driving away with the woman beneath the car.

She said her head was nearly run over, but moved just in time.

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“With grace I had enough instinct to roll over and get out of the way,” the woman said. “My head probably would have been smushed under the tire.”

The victim called her boyfriend from inside the car wash and he spotted her car on his way to come get her. He called police who found the suspects after a short chase.

According to the police report, the teens said they took the car because “they were tired of walking.” DeKalb police said the suspects are 15 and 16 years old.

The woman is badly bruised from the incident.

“I got caught under the car, they dragged me, and so I got a lot of road rash, and bruises on the right side from where the car hit me,” she said.

The victim faces six months of recovery from her injuries, but said she knows it could have been worse.

“I could have been gone that day,” she said.

There is a GoFundMe page set up if you would like to help the victim.

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