On Sunday, thieves in a tow truck dragged off a brand new car in Southeast D.C. Now News4 has learned that the same thing happened to a woman in Georgetown months earlier in a matter of seconds.
Jaclyn Baker said the crime happened on Feb. 28, but it still stings.
“As soon as this model of Corvette came out, I saw it at the D.C. Auto Show, and I immediately knew that that was my dream car,” she said.
But the dream was not to last. Her neighbor’s Ring camera caught the whole crime that night, when a tow truck pulled up and then drove off with the 2016 Corvette that she worked so hard for.
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“That car was my baby, I bought it brand new,” Baker said. “So to see it be pulled off in the middle of the night at 3 in the morning, it was shocking."
Police eventually tracked it down in Anacostia a few months later, but the information she received about it was disturbing.
“Somebody had been shot and killed in the front seat,” Baker said.
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The Metropolitan Police Department said it’s looking into whether the cases could be connected or if it could signal a trend.
"I'd hate for other people to have to go through what I went through, getting my car stolen," Baker said.
Though she does plan on eventually getting another Corvette, Baker said the current wait for one is eight months.
