Melbourne police are on the hunt for two people who carjacked an elderly woman overnight.

  • Nancy Deane was checking her car alarm when couple asked for ride
  • She took them to Grant Community Center
  • She says they threw her out of the car and took off

It happened outside of her home on Lipscomb Street in the northern part of the city.

"I tried to fight them off, and they pushed me out of the car onto the pavement," said 79-year-old Nancy Deane.

Deane was outside just after 1 a.m. Thursday tending to her blaring car alarm, which she had been having issues with lately.

She decided to drive the car around the block to see if it would stop.

Minutes later when she got back, the man and woman approached asking for a ride to a nearby home next to the Grant Community Center.

She did so, but when they got to that area Deane was attacked.

"They wanted my keys, and I said 'no.' He was a strong man. He threw me out and left me there and drove off," Deane said.

Deane has a knot on her head and is still shaken.

Her car is still missing, making it difficult for her to get her ailing husband, suffering from double pneumonia, to his doctor's appointments.

On top of it all, she regrets being kind to strangers.

"They could have killed me very easily," she said.

Deane's vehicle is a 2004 Lincoln Town Car with Florida tag 314-LUN.