A man died after being carjacked and run over with his stolen SUV as he tried to grab onto it, Prince William County police say.
Images released by Prince William County police show the Lexus SUV that was taken from the victim, identified as 37-year-old Jose Vasquez Galvan.
The carjacking occurred as Galvan picked up a package from his leasing office at about 7 p.m. Saturday at the Oasis at Montclair, a gated apartment complex in Dumfries. The carjacking took place just outside the gates.
Galvan later died in a hospital, police said Monday.
He was married and a father of two, neighbors said.
“He was always smiling when I saw him, but I didn’t really know too much more about him,” a neighbor, Mylie Smith, said. “I always saw him with his two little girls and everything.”
Police searched for the victim’s stolen 1999 gold Lexus RX 300 with the Virginia license plate TUW8710. They said they believed the SUV had damage to the rear left bumper area, tail light assembly and possibly to the rear left rim. There were two “Baby On Board” stickers on the back.
Police said in an update Tuesday that they found the SUV. The search for the suspect continues.
“This is normally a safe area,” Kenyon Connor, a resident of the building, said. “Stuff like this doesn’t usually happen around here. Maybe car racing happens on the main road, you can hear it from here.”
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Jean Manuel has a daughter who lives in the complex because they expected the gated community to be safe.
“We thought gated community’s safer for sure, for her first apartment,” Manuel said. “Her car was stolen within literally three months of her living here.”
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