Deputies: Man carjacked woman's vehicle in Applebee's parking lot
ST. CLOUD, Fla. - A man identified as a suspect in a Kissimmee carjacking was arrested after crashing the vehicle while fleeing from law enforcement, deputies said.
The Osceola County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday responded to an Applebee's on E. Osceola Parkway in Kissimmee in reference to an armed carjacking. Deputies said a woman was leaving the restaurant when a man approached her with a knife and demanded her car keys, cell phone, and cash, before driving off with her car.
By Wednesday, deputies said that they were able to identify a suspect as 32-year-old Rishard Brown.
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After an extensive search, deputies said they spotted Brown driving the stolen vehicle, which led to a pursuit through St. Cloud. It ended with Brown's arrest, but only after he plowed the car into the backyard of a house on Augusta Circle and crashed into a fence.
"I got the phone call and it was my daughter and my wife screaming, 'Get home! Get home!" said Louie McLeod.
Surveillance video from his home shows a grey car barely missing the house where his wife and teenage daughter were at the time of the crash.
"I’m so glad it did not go through our bedroom because my mom and I would have been dead," said McLeod's daughter, Shelbie. "It’s just a miracle we’re still alive!"
"He went right through here, broke this fence, and ended up in a ditch back there," McLeod said as he pointed out the car's path. "The Good Lord steered him to the left a little bit, saved my wife and kids!"
Brown faces charges of armed carjacking, armed robbery with a weapon, grand theft, aggravated assault, fleeing to elude, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, burglary to a structure, and resisting without violence.
Rishard Brown faces charges of armed carjacking, armed robbery with a weapon, grand theft, aggravated assault, fleeing to elude, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, burglary to a structure, and resisting without violence, according to
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A passenger in the car, identified as 27-year-old Derick Bonet-Rodriguez, jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot. Bonet-Rodriguez was apprehended and charged with resisting without violence, the Sheriff's Office said.
Derick Bonet-Rodriguez is charged with resisting without violence, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
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