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Tue Apr 19, 2022, 05:48 AM Apr 2022

Carjacker beats up 72-year-old, takes car, only to die in crash, police say [View all]

https://www.kctv5.com/2022/04/18/carjacker-beats-up-72-year-old-takes-car-only-die-crash-police-say/

Carjacker beats up 72-year-old, takes car, only to die in crash, police say

A San Antonio great-grandmother is recovering after a brutal carjacking this week. (Source: KABB/WOAI/CNN)

By Robyn Oguinye
Published: Apr. 18, 2022 at 1:20 PM EDT|Updated: 17 hours ago

SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - A San Antonio great-grandmother is recovering after a brutal carjacking this week.

She’s lucky not to have been more seriously injured, but her assailant later crashed her car and died.

Shirlene Hernandez, 72, was on her way to a Shell gas station Tuesday morning, something she does every day, to get a Diet Coke.

On her way inside, a man grabbed her, hitting her several times in the face in a tussle to take her keys. Hernandez said despite three men trying to tackle the attacker, he still got away with her car.

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