Retired D.C. Police Lt. Brahm Persaud made the mistake of stopping for gas at a Citgo station on Kenilworth Avenue NE on Saturday just before noon.

Coming up in the city, graduating from McKinley Tech and serving as a cop for a couple of decades, you might have thought Persaud would have known to avoid this stretch of Kenilworth near 13th Street. Locals call it carjacking central.

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