Carjacking incident in South Jackson leaves family traumatized
SEE ALSO: UPDATE: South Jackson carjacking suspect identified
JACKSON, Tenn. — An incident that occurred on the evening of April 8, outside of a business on South Highland in Jackson, left one family shaken.
We met with the victim, Emma Greene, a Chester County resident, who says Monday she was driving to meet her sister to eat at a restaurant in South Jackson.
After stepping out of her vehicle at the restaurant she says a man asked her for a ride to Walmart.
Greene told him she couldn’t and that she was meeting with her sister.
At this point, she says the man ran to her vehicle and hopped into the driver’s seat.
“As he’s hopping in, I was coming with him because I didn’t want him to get in my car so I was trying to stop him,” said Greene.
She says during her attempt to stop the man from stealing her car, he managed to back the car out of the parking spot and push Greene out of the vehicle.
“I watched him head North. He took a right from the parking lot,” said Greene.
The entire time, Greene was on a conference call with her sister and mother, who heard the events unfold through her phone.
“It was just very, very, very scary, and there’s just no feeling like that in the world, when you can’t get to your daughter and you know something’s happening to her,” said Christy Greene, Mother to Emma Greene.
Emma Greene told us witnesses contacted Jackson Police, who gave her medical assistance, and began their investigation.
Two days later, over 300 miles away, the suspect was found to still be driving the stolen vehicle before being apprehended by police.
He was found in Calhoun, Georgia, and stopped by police for not having his headlights or tail lights on while driving.
He is facing multiple charges in Georgia for theft by receiving, open container, no headlights, and no tail lights.
Emma Greene says the trauma from the incident will linger.
“I mean I was completely not expecting it. I mean, I don’t know, it just terrified me,” said Greene.
The family tells us that police told them the suspect would be extradited back to Tennessee to face felony charges.
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