Mere moments after handing over cash for a used car Wednesday evening, a man found himself at the mercy of two carjackers in the Central District.
The man told police that Wednesday afternoon, he contacted a woman about an online ad for a 1991 white Ford Explorer, and later met her in the parking lot of a restaurant near the Seattle Center.
The man drove with the woman to the Central District and parked near a home on 26th Avenue and E. Columbia Street.
The woman told the victim she needed to go into the home and get paperwork for the car, and the victim handed her $1400 in cash to pay for the vehicle.
After the woman got out of the car and walked off, two men approached the victim—who was waiting in the car—and pointed a gun at him.
The suspects ordered the victim out of the car, demanded his keys and cell phone, and drove off with the victim’s car.
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