"I was shaking": Grandmother targeted in horrifying carjacking
A Melbourne grandmother has been left "terribly shaken" after she was targeted in a carjacking in broad daylight.
Fay Elisha, 76, had been doing her shopping in Malvern, in Melbourne's south-east, on Monday afternoon when she noticed an "agitated" man who was heckling a group of construction workers.
When she got in her car to leave the shopping centre, the grandmother said she was startled when the man began to run towards her and yelled at her to get out of her car.
“My eyes froze, my feet froze, I just stood there,” she told 7News. “I just did as I was told, got out of the car, terribly shaken."
“He got me by the T-shirt I was wearing, around the neck and just pulled me out because I wasn’t going fast enough.”
The carjacker took off in Ms Elisha's Lexus, with witnesses capturing the moment the car rammed other cars on the street that were in the way.
Shaken from the incident, Ms Elisha headed into her regular dentist surgery, which is across the road from where the incident occurred, where she was comforted by staff.
“I was shaking inside the dental surgery,” she said. “They (the staff) really looked after me.”
Police were able to track the carjacker's journey thanks to Ms Elisha's phone, which had been left in the car, which led officers just 2.5km down the road where the offender abandoned the car and tried to break into a home.
Elisha said the ordeal was “horrible” and “frightening” but that she was thankful her grandchildren weren’t in the car at the time.
“That would’ve been the worst-case scenario for me,” she said. “That would’ve been horrendous.”
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