WASHINGTON — A man driving for Lyft was carjacked by a group of men with weapons early Saturday morning in the Navy Yard area of Southeast D.C.
Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department found the man inside a lobby of a building located on 4th Street Southwest D.C. According to the police report, the Lyft driver told officers he was parked in the middle of the street waiting for his customer in the 1300 block of 4th Street Southeast when a vehicle pulled up in front of him around 3:17 a.m.
The victim told police three men came out of the vehicle and pulled out what appeared to be AR-style rifles on the driver-side door of his car, stated in the police report. Then the fourth suspect remained inside the vehicle.
The men asked the victim to "get out of the vehicle" while pointing their weapons at him, according to the police report. One of the men asked the victim various questions about the personal items that were inside his vehicle.
The driver told the three men, "don't shoot me, I'm a teacher." The suspects then entered the car and fled with the Lyft driver's vehicle last seen traveling Southbound in the 1300 block of 4th Street Southwest, officials said.
Officers put out a broadcast on their radios of three Black men possibly around the ages of 17 to 20 wearing all black with black ski masks covering their faces, police said.
This case remains under active investigation.
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