Exclusive: Victim Recalls 'Traumatizing' Boston Carjacking
BOSTON (CBS) – Officers are searching for a man who allegedly carjacked a woman in a Boston's South End.
Police were called to the area of Cumberland and Saint Botolph Streets where a woman said that while she was parking her car a man came up to her driver's side door and opened it.
The victim of the carjacking was a 26-year-old nurse who had just returned from a night shift.
"He opened the door, looked me in the eye, tried to push me in, and I screamed," the woman told WBZ-TV's Bill Shields, asking not to be identified by name.
She told WBZ-TV's Jim Smith he kept "shushing me" and she told him to get out.
The suspect initially tried to push the woman into the car and get in, but she broke free and ran.
"All I could think of was getting away," she told Smith. "It was pretty scary."
She ran down the street calling for help, and neighbors came to her aid and called police.
"I was in my room upstairs, heard the scream, went to my window, and the woman was coming down the street and a pedestrian, another woman, comforted her," says neighbor Ian Mackenzie.
Officers later found the car behind a building on Peterborough Street. The vehicle had been set on fire.
"It was definitely very traumatizing," the victim said.
She suffered some bruising, but was not badly hurt during the ordeal.
Boston Police have not yet located the suspect in the incident.
On Friday night, officers distributed pamphlets to let residents known what had happened.
He is described as a black man with short, curly black hair. At the time of the carjacking the suspect was wearing a light grey or blue short sleeved shirt.
Anyone with information is asked to call Boston police at (617) 343-5619.