A Virginia DoorDash driver was shocked when she was carjacked at gunpoint by two people while making a delivery — one of whom was an 11-year-old boy. While it’s terrifying enough to go through something like this, realizing a literal child is behind the crime is even more jarring.
Deon Smith was approached by the pair while making a delivery.
Smith, 40, was delivering at an apartment complex on Westover Hills Boulevard just after midnight when an 18-year-old man and an 11-year-old boy approached her.
“When I was going inside I saw two kids outside,” Smith told WTVR. “The little one approached me. I was thinking he was asking for money or something but little did I know he was pointing a gun at me asking for my keys.”
She tried to talk the kids out of committing the crime.
The 11-year-old threatened to shoot Smith if she didn’t hand over her keys, but Smith tried to talk some sense into the child.
“When he told me that he was going to shoot me I was like, ‘Are you serious? You want to kill somebody at your age,'” she recalled. “I was asking where is your mom and why are you out here this time of night.”
The 18-year-old then got in the car and told her to get in too, but she refused. Instead, the 11-year-old got in and the two drove off.
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The pair later crashed Smith’s car.
She called the police and found out an hour later that 18-year-old Jahlia Henley and the 11-year-old had crashed the car and had been taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Smith said she’d only just finished paying the car off in September 2023 and “it was taken away from me and totaled.”
Both suspects were charged with robbery.
A Richmond Police spokesperson told WTVR of the incident: “The suspects fled the scene in the victim’s vehicle which was later located in Henrico County, crashed in a rural area.”
“The two juvenile suspects inside the vehicle at the time of the crash were transported to local hospitals. They were released without any significant injuries and charged with robbery.”
