Two juveniles have been arrested after a 37-year-old woman was carjacked last week in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood.
A 17-year-old girl was charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle and a 16-year-old girl was charged with criminal trespass, police said, but it’s not clear if the two girls were the ones who attacked the woman last Thursday.
Marlene Ho told police she was returning home to the 1600 block of West Ohio after running errands when she saw two “kids” in her driveway. The pair asked her for a lighter, but she said she didn’t have one.
That’s when Ho said one of the attackers charged her with a knife.
"The next thing I know, it's jabbing and punching in my head and on my side and on my arms and all over and I thought, is this really happening to me right now? And I'm trying to fight this person off,”Ho said. “And then the next thing I know, it's repetitive. ‘You're going to give me this.’ ‘You're going to give me your car.’ ‘I'm going to kill you.’"
Ho said she gave the pair what they asked for, but managed to keep her phone, which was in another bag. The attackers drove off in her car as she screamed for help.
Ho was transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County where she needed stitched on the back of her head and treatment for stab wounds on her back. She credits the thickness of her winter coat with saving her life.
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"I was like crying hysterically, like in pain, and I'm checking my head and my body,” Ho said. “I could feel moisture on my side and then all of a sudden, I touched my head and my hand was covered in blood and it was a lot and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, is this really happening to me?’"
Ho said she told police she thought her attackers were boys, but couldn’t be sure because they were bundled up. Police said the vehicle was later recovered on the city’s South Side.
Police said an investigation into the carjacking is ongoing.
