A man who tried to carjack a driver in Northeast D.C. was stabbed to death, police say.
A man armed with a metal baton approached a woman in a car at a BP gas station down a feeder road of Kenilworth Avenue about 11 a.m. Thursday. He demanded she get out of the car, police said, but she refused. For the next minute and 12 seconds, the two fought inside the car before a man who was getting his car serviced saw what was going on and ran over to help, stabbing the suspected carjacker repeatedly.
The suspect got away with the car but only made it a little further than a block before crashing into two other vehicles at Eastern Avenue. Witnesses told News4 the bleeding man jumped from the car and collapsed.
“He climbed out the car bleeding and went that way, and I don’t know where he went at — somewhere across the street,” Keith Leonard said.
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Leonard said he was stopped at the traffic light in a white pickup when the white sedan came up from behind and hit his truck as well as a black sedan.
The woman driving that car said she watched as a man bleeding profusely climbed out of the driver’s side window and staggered up Eastern Avenue, where he collapsed.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified as Davon Jones.
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The carjacking victim's injuries are unknown.
Police shut the area down, including around the gas station, as they worked the crime scene.
The woman in the black sedan told News4 that her three children were in the car with her and were traumatized by what they saw.
Leonard, who works with young people as a mentor and football coach, said he wants to see more work in the community to prevent crimes.
“We try to help these kids every single day. I don’t know it is, what’s causing the crime, what’s causing kids to do what they’re doing — I don’t know — but government got to help,” he said.
Police say they have a pretty good idea who the man who did the stabbing is. Detectives are consulting with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to determine whether he will face charges.
Any potential witnesses are asked to contact police.
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