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KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE. NEWS CHANNEL 3 AT 10. FIRST AT 10.
A CARJACKING AT OVERTON SQUARE IN FRONT OF A POPULAR MOVIE THEATER. POLICE SAY THE 3 MEN IN THIS VIDEO TARGETED A WOMAN ON A BUSY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ONE PERSON WAS CAPTURED, BUT 2 ARE STILL ON THE RUN.
HELLO, I'M GREG HURST. HI, I'M STEPHANIE SCURLOCK. THE VICTIM WAS SLAMMED TO THE GROUND. HER CAR WAS STOLEN. G'S BRIAN DIDLAKE HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY AND SPOKE TO THE VICTIM. BRIAN, WHAT YOU SAY?
STEPHANIE, GREAT. WE WERE ABLE TO SPEAK ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE VICTIM IN ALL THIS, AND SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS IN THE MIDTOWN AREA TO MEET A FRIEND. A MEETING SHE SAID THAT YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MAKE BEFORE HER CAR WAS STOLEN.
"I HONESTLY THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO KILL ME. SO I WAS SCREAMING, DON'T HURT ME, DON'T HURT ME. HONESTLY THOUGHT THAT."
THOSE FEW MINUTES, YOU... SHE IS A 60-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, STILL TOO SHAKEN, DID NOT WANT TO REVEAL HER NAME OR FACE, BUT TELLS WREG WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH HER HEAD AS SHE WAS BEING CARJACKED.
NEARBY SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS 3 SUSPECTS WALKING MOMENTS BEFORE STEALING THE WOMAN'S TOYOTA COROLLA AND THEN SLAMMING HER ON THE GROUND BEFORE TAKING OFF IN HER CAR.
"I HAVE MAJOR BRUISE ON MY BACK AND ON THE FRONT OF MY LEG. I HAVE A LITTLE SMALL HEAD INJURY THAT..."
MEMPHIS POLICE SAY THEY WERE ABLE TO STOP THE SUSPECTS THANKS TO A WITNESS WHO POINTED THEM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION OF THE GETAWAY. THE SUSPECTS CRASHED AT ONE A GROVE IN TILLMAN, AND AFTER A BRIEF FOOT CHASE, ONE SUSPECT ARRESTED.
"I LOVE MEMPHIS, BUT I WORRY. AND THIS CERTAINLY DIDN'T HELP ME TO BE MORE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE CRIME."
THE CARJACKED VICTIM HAS BEEN SHAKEN TO HER CORE. DAY-TO-DAY LIFE CONTINUES FOR AREA NEIGHBORS.
"I THINK PEOPLE OFTEN WELL, WOW THINGS UP THAT HAPPEN SCARIER THAN IT REALLY IS."
MIDTOWN RESIDENTS LIKE NICOLE WARNE SAYS EVEN IN THEIR AREA, CRIME IS A POSSIBILITY, AS IT IS IN ANY CITY.
"THERE ARE THINGS LIKE HARDER, BUT THERE'S THINGS LIKE BEING ABLE TO WALK TO DINNER WITH MY KIDS THAT ARE AN AWESOME PART OF LIVING IN MIDTOWN. AND RATHER FOCUS ON THAT BECAUSE THOSE HAPPEN MORE FREQUENTLY."
MEANTIME, POLICE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE OTHER 2 SUSPECTS SEEN IN THAT SURVEILLANCE VIDEO. MEANWHILE, AREAS OF MEMPHIS FACE A JUDGE TOMORROW MORNING. WE'RE LIVE IN DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS TONIGHT, BRIAN, TO LOOK.