Indianapolis woman 7 months pregnant robbed, carjacked

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A pregnant Indianapolis woman is warning others to be aware of their surroundings after she said was robbed and carjacked outside of her apartment on the city’s northeast side.

The 20-year-old woman who didn’t want to be identified is seven months pregnant. She told police she was getting ready to get out of her car when a man approached her.

“I was like, ‘Man, there’s no way he’s going to let me, he’s going to take everything like this and let me leave and let me walk away from it,’” she said.

It happened at Keystone North Apartments on Meadows Drive early Thursday morning.

The single mother said she just got back from hanging out with her sister when a man approached her car.

“He was talking to me through the window and saying, ‘You got a phone I can use?’ And I said, ‘No, my phone is dead,’” she explained. “He went back around and, you know, pointed the gun at the window and said, ‘Get out of the car, you know, and give me everything.’”

The victim said she’s so traumatized by what happened she’s already moved out of her apartment.

“I thought I was going to die. Like, I thought that was it, he was really going to shoot me,” she said. “Because he didn’t have a mask on and he didn’t have anything covering his face.”

The victim said the man believed to be in his early 20’s grabbed her purse and jumped into her 2005 gray Chevy impala.

“He stopped and looked at me and was saying something and I couldn’t understand him,” she said. “I said, ‘Please don’t take my car. I’m pregnant; please don’t do this.’”

She said the suspect drove off with her car.

“I’ve never experienced anything like that at all. I just never thought it would happen to me,” she said.

The victim is thankful her 2-year-old daughter wasn’t with her sitting in the back seat. She said she wished she would have been more aware of her surroundings.

“You got to be careful, like, and I feel so stupid looking back now,” she said. “I shouldn’t be coming home that late, I shouldn’t have been out, I should have my mace out and ready.”

She’s now hoping that others can learn from her experience that you can never be too careful.

“There’s so many things that run through my mind that I could have done to change the situation,” she said. “But at the same time, until you’re in the situation and until it happens to you, you don’t think about those things. You don’t realize it until it actually happens to you.”

The victim told 24-Hour News 8 the parking lot had a security camera. She asked management for the video, but they told her the camera was not working.

She described the suspect as a man believed to be in his early 20’s about 5 foot 8 inches with a short afro. He was last seen wearing a gray hoodie with black stripes.

If you have any information about this case, you’re asked to call police.