Even the slightest noise makes Kim Fasula look nervously over her shoulder, months after she was carjacked at gunpoint in her garage on a summer morning in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
She struggled for a time getting behind the wheel of her SUV again and to this day hasn’t set foot in her garage or alley, parking instead on the street. Co-workers at the University of Illinois at Chicago sometimes walk her to her vehicle after work. If she’s alone, she hurries to her vehicle, calling her husband on her cellphone to let him know, “I’m walking out now.”
“My daughter used my car the night before and that’s all I kept thinking was ‘What if it was her?’” said Fasula, a 48-year-old mother of three.
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3 comments:
of course, why jack a car in the hood ? go where the $$ is.
Thugs moving to where the "food" is, nothing new there! Actually that takes intelligence....so are we now suggesting thugs are intelligent?
Oh my - how far we have come!!!
Lock and load.
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