Higher Place, N.C. (WGHP) — A Thomasville female who was the victim of a violent carjacking on Thursday has located her vehicle.
Hunter Thompson’s 2016 Honda CR-V was stolen from her in a parking ton on the 2000 block of North Centennial Avenue in Higher Point.
“His eyes are ingrained in my brain,” reported the 20-calendar year-previous. “… Terrifying. He also appeared terrified. Everyone was terrified in the predicament.”
Hunter was expending time with college good friends who experienced walked into a shop, leaving her in the car or truck alone with the doors unlocked.
“A gentleman just arrived up and threw me appropriate out the auto,” she explained. She told law enforcement the man was carrying a ski mask, and police have described the suspect as a Black person standing in between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9 weighing amongst 165 and 175 lbs. The suspect is considered to be amongst the ages of 18 and 25.
Hunter and a person of her pals experienced slight accidents all through the carjacking.
“I tried using keeping on to the manage of the automobile,” she mentioned. “He dragged me across the parking good deal together with just one of my friends. He threw me off and I grabbed back again on. He threw me off. I started out running straight down the highway where it was.”
Hunter says she fought so tough due to the fact of the tricky function she put into getting the car or truck.
“It was my very first large order at any time, my initially motor vehicle,” she mentioned. “Literally bought it a month in the past. I have been conserving considering that significant school for it.”
Hunter can now choose some type of solace from an dreadful expertise considering the fact that the car she worked so difficult for has been found.
Thompson’s mom Pam states that Greensboro law enforcement discovered the motor vehicle at a Rath Road condominium elaborate in Greensboro.
“The vehicle has been discovered. The officer in Greensboro just called to inform us that she has the auto,” Pam expressed in a Fb article.
The loved ones suggests they have been shopping for areas to take care of up an outdated vehicle for Hunter when they acquired the fantastic news.
“They identified my vehicle, I have never ever been so grateful and delighted in my lifetime. Thank you, thank you, thank you to absolutely everyone who prayed,” mentioned Hunter in a Fb put up.
Crime scene investigators arrived to the motor vehicle to just take fingerprints as the research for the suspect continues.
For now, the Honda will be towed to Vann York Honda in Superior Issue to have a new important built so that Hunter may perhaps start out to resume her lifestyle.
