A Mississippi family is living in fear that the armed carjackers who opened fire on them and nearly took off with their two small children will return with a vengeance.
The Allen family is terrified that the at-large thieves may seek retaliation after the family shared the caught-on-camera attack with a news channel.
“We have to get out of here. It’s not safe. Especially not now, with all the news and stuff because their picture, it’s getting out here, and I’m afraid they’re going to retaliate,” Heather Allen, one of the victims in the incident last week, told “Fox & Friends First.”
Allen — who has only lived in Jackson for about three months — said the incident was the final straw prompting her to leave the crime-riddled city, which she said is worse than Memphis, Tennessee.
In a brazen broad daylight attack, the two gun-toting strangers ran up on Allen and her adult son while they were standing next to their car parked in their Jackson driveway.
One of the men fired a bullet as they moved in on the family, sending the pair cowering behind the car for safety.
“You can see me throw my hands up,” Allen said.
That’s when one of the gunmen yanked her daughter out of the car and climbed into the driver’s seat, then pointed a gun at her oldest son’s face.
Fortunately, he scrambled out of the car and straight for the house at the direction of his mother — who realized she had to jump back into the car to save her “grandbabies in the back seat.”
“[The carjackers were] in between my daughter, and they’re going back and forth like, ‘give me the keys, give me the keys,’” Allen recalled.
“‘My daughter’s like, ‘They’re in the car,’ and then that’s when it dawned on me, I had my keys around my neck, so I took them off and threw them to them to get them out of my yard.”
The footage shows Allen chuck her keys at the thieves. They peeled off in the car, but ditched it just two blocks away, according to police.
According to a local report, the terrifying incident occurred just 40 minutes after another carjacking on a nearby street.
The suspects are still on the lam nearly a week after the ordeal — but Allen claims that one is already on police’s radar after being caught on video at a nearby store.
In the meantime, the Allen family was given their car back after going “back and forth” multiple times between impounded car lots and the local crime lab. Police had taken the vehicle to process it for evidence.
