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Carjacker Takes Police Cruiser For Joyride
Published 3 months ago
In this compilation of bodycam and dashcam footage, supplied by Columbus, Ohio's Police Department, we see 39-year-old carjacker Jimmie Shoemaker-Gonzalez at work. This video shows the culmination of his "hat trick"- stealing three cars in a single day. Jimmie (which is less professional but easier to continually type than his surname) even decides to go for gold, stealing a police cruiser to cap the event. Earlier in the day, Jimmie stole two vehicles at knife-point and wrecked both sequentially. This video picks up the chase at a point where Jimmie fled on foot to a nearby apartment complex. As Columbus PD tried to interdict him, Jimmie made the block and stole a Sergeant's cruiser (yikes). As Jimmie drove away, an officer put four rounds into the cruiser, which struck the carjacker's right middle finger and legs. Despite this, Jimmie kept driving, narrowly missing a school bus and eventually slamming the cruiser through the front doors of a local diner. Hospitalized, Jimmie would register a BAC of .102, and test positive for coke, PCP, and oxycodone. When released into police custody from the hospital, Jimmie claimed that he intended to sue the police, as he doubted they had a good reason for shooting him.