Elmont

Elmont Gunman Sought for Carjacking Try

By Timothy Bolger Posted on April 11, 2013

Nassau County police are investigating an attempted car jacking at gunpoint in Elmont early Thursday morning.

A 41-year-old man was sitting in his parked car in front of his Kingston Avenue home when a man with his face covered opened the car door, ordered the victim out and displayed a black handgun at 12:25 a.m., police said.

The victim pulled the door closed and drove away. The would-be robber fled on foot eastbound on Freeman Avenue.

Fourth Squad detectives request that anyone with information regarding this crime to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.