Indeed, karma is a bitch… and the elderly woman’s carjacker definitely pays the ultimate price.
The 72-year-old woman, Shirlene Hernandez, was on her way to a gas station when the attack took place.
Hernandez said she made her daily stop at the Shell gas station at I-35 and Southcross on April 12 to pick up a Diet Coke when a man attacked her while she was walking into the store from her car, KABB reported.
The suspect repeatedly punched Hernandez in the face as he ripped her keys from her hands, she later told the news outlet.
Three men rushed to help Hernandez but he still got away with her car and drove off in a frenzy. But, a few hours later, the police found the car crashed on a highway not far away from the gas station where Hernandez was attacked. The carjacker was found dead inside the car, the police said.
“There’s a lot of people who would say what goes around comes around karma. I did not think that; the only thing I got (was) really sad because he had died,” Hernandez told WBRC. “Now granted, he had hurt me, but the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery.”
Hernandez is on a road to recovery but said she is still sore and has a bruised face. She is, however, not able to go to work since she doesn’t have a car now.
She hopes her story will urge good Samaritans to step forward and help out whenever they see trouble unfold.
“I just hope that if this situation happens to anybody else, that somebody will step forward, leap forward, run forward, whatever and help the person that it’s happening to,” she said.
Despite being shaken by the experience, the great-grandmother isn’t letting the crime shape her life as she continues to work while saving for another car.
“I realised – I don’t have a car,” she said. “I just don’t want to quit working and so I’ve got to somehow get another car and that takes money and stuff. I’ve got to figure out what to do.”
A GoFundMe has been launched by her granddaughter to help her purchase a vehicle so she could get to ‘work or appointments’.
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