Great-grandmother fights back against alleged carjacker outside N. Harris Co. store, family says

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The woman didn't go down without a fight and bit her alleged attacker, who took off with her car with her purse and cash. While her car was found, her family still wants the suspect arrested.

Jessica WilleyA woman's family is pleading to find the suspect who carjacked their mother and took her cash. But they said she fought back before he got away.An 83-year-old great-grandmother tried to fight back during a violent carjacking Thursday morning outside of a grocery store in the Aldine area.According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, she was leaving the La Michoacana on Aldine Mail Route at about 8 a.m. when she was attacked.

"She's doing her grocery shopping. She's 83 years old. Why?" her daughter, Evelyn Garza, asked. "To attack an elderly person like that. We want him caught." The suspect drove to a nearby shopping center not long after the carjacking. Surveillance cameras caught his next moves. He parked behind Manny's Mexican Grill and Seafood Restaurant on E. Mount Houston. He engaged with a delivery driver and then checked the door handle of the restaurant's truck. Next, he casually walked away carrying a bag and abandoning Sanchez's stolen vehicle."We've got to focus on her healing," her son said.

Fiercely protective, her husband and children are upset that the grandmother of nine and great-grandmother of five had to endure such violence.Anyone with information about the carjacker is urged to contact the Harris County Sheriff's Office or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

 

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