A 19-year-old Maryland man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail Tuesday for carjacking an Uber driver at gunpoint final summer time in Northeast D.C.
“I feel like a god,” prosecutors say the carjacker mentioned on digicam as he and an confederate laughed about how a lot they’d scared the sufferer.
Jahlil Perry, of District Heights, Maryland, was sentenced to 30 months in jail adopted by two years of probation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. and D.C. police introduced. Perry was ordered to pay his sufferer $1,410 in restitution.
The crime got here amid a wave of carjackings and assaults on rideshare and meals supply drivers within the D.C. space.
The Uber driver was making at pickup at about 9:20 p.m. Aug. 13, 2021 within the 1200 block of sixteenth Street NE when Perry and confederate Cordell Green, 20, “boxed him in,” prosecutors say.
Green opened the rear driver’s facet door, pointed a gun on the driver and ordered him to get out of his SUV.
Perry opened the passenger facet door and pointed a gun to the motive force’s head. The driver surrendered the automotive in a panic, and Perry ordered him handy over his telephone.
Green drove away with Perry within the passenger seat, prosecutors mentioned. As they rode off, Perry threw the Uber driver’s telephone out the window they usually laughed.
“I feel like a god,” he mentioned.
D.C. police tracked down the carjackers a short while later, and Green crashed and totaled the SUV. Both younger males have been arrested.
Police discovered contained in the SUV two ghost weapons with high-capacity magazines.
They additionally found that the Uber driver had a splash cam. It “captured the offense in its entirety,” prosecutors mentioned.
Perry pleaded responsible in February to theft, assault with a harmful weapon and carrying a pistol and not using a license.
Green, of Laurel, Maryland, additionally pleaded responsible to fees and is about to be sentenced in August.
Police say the girl was returning house from the grocery retailer in Capitol Heights. Paul Wagner studies.
Plenty of rideshare and meals supply drivers have lately been the targets of crimes.
Late final month, an Uber driver was shot and wounded on Bruce Place SE after passengers took his automotive keys.
A person within the Air Force making an attempt work as a DoorDash driver was carjacked at gunpoint Saturday in District Heights, Maryland. It was his first day on the job.