A Mississippi family is on edge, fearing retaliation could come to their door after security camera footage of gunmen ambushing them and stealing their car in their front yard received widespread attention.
“We have to get out of here. It's not safe. Especially not now, with all the news and stuff because his picture is coming out here, and I'm afraid they're going to retaliate,” said Heather Allen, one of the victims of the incident. last week, he told “Fox & Friends First” Thursday.
Allen is a resident of Jackson, Mississippi, where she says crime is out of control and worse than Memphis, Tennessee.
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In this still image taken from security footage, car thieves are seen outside Heather Allen's home in Mississippi. (Courtesy of Heather Allen)
That crime epidemic reached his front yard when criminals entered his property and began yelling at his family to get out of the car.
“You can see me put my hands up,” Allen said. One of the attackers pulled her daughter out of the car, jumped in and pointed a gun at her eldest son's face.
““My son comes out… I told him to run, get into the house, and that's when I went to get the grandchildren who were in the back seat,” she recalled.
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Jackson, Mississippi resident Heather Allen plans to move after the dangerous carjacking incident left her family feeling unsafe. (Fox and his friends first/screenshot)
“They are [the carjackers were] between my daughter, and they go back and forth like, 'give me the keys, give me the keys.' “My daughter said, 'They're in the car,' and that's when I realized, I had the keys around my neck, so I took them off and threw them at her to get them out of my yard.”
The family's security camera captured the crime on video. According to a local report, the incident took place just 40 minutes after another carjacking on a nearby street.
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Heather Allen says crime has gotten out of control in the Jackson, Mississippi area.
That same report said local police are still searching for suspects. Allen stated that a suspect was caught on video at a nearby store. He has not been given information about the other suspect.
Allen also said he recovered his car after going “back and forth” several times between impounded car lots and the local crime lab.
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