Four teenagers have been charged with murder following a Monday carjacking that ended with a 73-year-old woman bleeding out on the streets of New Orleans with a severed arm.
The suspects — a 17-year-old male, a 16-year-old female, and two 15-year-old females — allegedly dragged the woman by her own vehicle when she became stuck in her seat belt. Onlookers watched the incident in horror, according to a report citing a Tuesday statement from local officials.
All the teenagers are facing second-degree murder charges, according to Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department Shaun Ferguson.
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Ferguson said he recommended that the teenagers face the charges as adults.
“That’s a conversation that my team will have with the district attorney’s office,” Ferguson said. “I would say absolutely, I encourage, I will ask, that they be charged as adults. … I mean, look at the nature of the crime.”
The victim, Linda Frickey, died as a result of the injuries she suffered after becoming entangled in a seat belt and dragged by the carjackers.
“The door had closed on the seat belt, but she was stuck in it,” a witness said. “I got out of my vehicle, screaming for them, ‘Please stop. You’re dragging a lady.’ Other neighbors were also screaming at them.”
Another witness said he and his wife did their best to comfort the dying woman.
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“I was telling this woman to hang in there,” he said. “Every time I heard a siren, I was hoping and praying that was an ambulance.”
