Violent Minneapolis carjacking victim struggles in the aftermath: “My life could have been over”
By KIRSTEN MITCHELL
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — She was attacked, carjacked and concussed, and a woman said what’s happened since then is just adding to her headache.
It was the end of October, around 5 p.m., and still light outside when Sophia Green said she parked near the intersection of West 39th Street and Bryant Avenue South in Minneapolis.
“The whole scenario maybe lasted a few seconds,” Green said.
As she was walking to the door, she said two teenagers wearing ski masks and hoodies confronted her and demanded her keys. She said one of them had a gun pointed at her.
“When I started screaming for help, that’s when the one with the gun hit me on the side of the head with the gun,” Green said.
“It’s you against a gun. In a second my life could have been over,” she said.
The violent carjacking left her with a concussion. A few weeks later, her ear drum ruptured too. She said police found her Jeep a few miles away in Brooklyn Park, but it may have been used in another crime, so it was taken for evidence. It’s been held for more than a month and Green isn’t sure when she will get it back.
“It makes it even more challenging to try to move on,” she said.
Meanwhile, she said the rental car provided by her insurance company needs to be returned next week.
“Unfortunately, there’s not just one person who helps guide you through this process,” she said.
Her case is one of 277 carjackings so far this year in Minneapolis, which police say is down 43% from that time last year.
“It’s not a number, it’s the trauma someone has to carry with them for the rest of their life,” she said.
Green said she hopes her story reaches the ears of elected leaders.
“Ultimately, they have a choice to choose to protect their people or continue to protect the people who are playing the hand of God by robbing people of their lives,” she said.
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