The 22-year-old daughter of U.S. Sen. Bob Corker was carjacked in Chinatown, just blocks from her family’s apartment near the Verizon Center, authorities said Thursday.
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District police said they took two men into custody after using a Global Positioning System unit in Julie Corker’s stolen sport utility vehicle to track down the vehicle and the suspects in Seat Pleasant.
Authorities said Julie Corker suffered minor injuries when one of the suspects pushed her from the vehicle and she landed on the street.
The Tennessee Republican’s daughter was stopped at the intersection of Seventh and D streets around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when one of the suspects approached her Chevy Tahoe and asked for directions, police said. As she gave the man directions, another suspect jumped into the passenger seat and forced her out.
Corker was headed to the family’s apartment near the Verizon Center at the time of the attack, the senator’s spokesman Todd Womack said.
“She’s a bit sore and shaken up, but doing well,” Womack said. The senator got to the scene within minutes to comfort his daughter, he said.
“The senator feels very fortunate that she’s OK,” Womack said. “This could have been much worse.”
Father and daughter went to Seat Pleasant around midnight and she was able to identify the suspects, police said. The two men had parked the Tahoe in a strip mall that has a police substation nearby. They were arrested in the strip mall’s parking lot.
Police did not immediately release the names of the two men arrested Wednesday night because they have not been formally charged. The two adult males — one from Northeast, the other from District Heights — are being held in Prince George’s County awaiting extradition to the District, police said. Each man is likely to be charged with unarmed carjacking and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Womack said the senator thanked the D.C. police department, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies for “their quick response and professionalism.”
