17-year-old carjacker shot in neck in botched carjacking

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https://www.wwltv.com/amp/article/news/local/orleans/17-year-old-carjacker-shot-neck-botched-carjacking/289-b61e3dd8-744c-4ff8-9097-a6eb06369fca

NEW ORLEANS — A 17-year-old was hospitalized following a botched carjacking in which he was shot by a man he was allegedly trying to carjack.

Sources tell the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate, that the teen’s accomplice, also a 17-year-old, admitted to the attempted carjacking.

According to the report, the two teens allegedly pointed a gun at a 48-year-old man outside his home in the 500 block of Louisa Street and demanded his keys. The man told New Orleans police that he flung his keys and fired a single shot from his own gun before running to his home.

Shortly later, the two teens arrived at Tulane Medical Center, with one teen wounded and unresponsive. The teens face charges of armed robbery and illegally possessing a firearm.

[LiberatedUSA]

1. They say botched like it was a bad thing.

Victim wins, one criminal loses badly.

Better headline.

[beemerphill]

2. He will hopefully live.

if he does live through this he will perhaps choose a different way to get cash. His partner in this endeavor should have already come to that conclusion. Thank heavens that the victim did not get hurt.

[Lucid Dreamer]

3. Tossing keys... good idea.

Tossing keys draws the BG away from the car owner. Skedaddle fast.

I go a step further. I have a Toyota key in my pocket that is for another long-gone Camry. That's what I throw.
It will fit in the lock but will not start the engine or unlock doors. That gives the owner [me] a few steps to find cover.

Hopefully that will save my car and keep me from starting a gunfight.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Play stupid games.... n/t