photo by Diane Krauthamer
“Dear PoPville,
A really nice woman who works at the Adams Morgan 7-11 fell victim to a car-jacking Monday night/Tuesday morning.
Her car was parked in front of the store at 2am. The car jackers didn’t know how to drive stick, abandoned the car and peeled out in the getaway car, not before side swiping her car, mangling the wheel well, shattering her window and rendering her car inoperable. As she told me she is “underinsured.” Meaning she’s paying for liability only.
Impossible to share insurance information with a car-jacker.
She’s a lovey person, from Ethiopia, with whom I have talked about the recent unrest there on so many occasions during the pandemic.
I hope we might be able to demonstrate some community support for her, be it a GoFund Me or some recommendations to appeal to 7-11 corporate or local entities that may have grant funds to apply to people who are indirect victims of violence.”