Woman is run over by criminal during carjacking in Barra Funda, in SP; victim is in serious condition

The crime took place on Rua Josef Kryss, near Praça Pascoal Martins and Avenida Marquês de São Vicente. The Military Police were called at around 6:35 am.

Images from a security camera show the moment the criminal approaches the victim, who had just left a pharmacy and was getting into his car.

The suspect crosses the street and hides behind trees while waiting for the woman to get into the vehicle. He then approaches and enters the car through the back seat.

Upon noticing the approach, the woman leaves the vehicle. The criminal then takes the driver's seat, but the victim tries to stop the robbery. The two get into a physical fight, and the man pushes her. She falls and hits her head on the floor.

The criminal then shifts into reverse gear and hits the woman with the vehicle. People in a nearby parking lot try to stop him from escaping and shout for him to stop, but the suspect manages to escape with the car.

A parking lot employee, who witnessed the action, said that the victim tried to hold the vehicle door to prevent the criminal from escaping.

"She tried to pull, tried, then he managed to reverse, when she held on to the door. Then she [was thrown] with great force backwards, hit her head and passed out", he reported.

According to the witness, people who were at the scene ran to try to prevent the driver from driving the car over the woman.

"We ran so he wouldn't run over her. Then he grabbed her, accelerated a little, swerved a little, but even so the tire still hit her head. And he continued with the car", he stated.

The victim was rescued with severe head trauma and bleeding from the ear. She needed to be intubated before being taken to Santa Casa de São Paulo.

Until the last update of this report, there was no information about the location of the criminal or the stolen vehicle.