The South Daytona Police Department says a group of people used a social media app to try to steal cars.
- Group used social media app to steal vehicles
- Teen was shot, man carjacked when meeting woman
- Both incidents at S. Ridgewood Ave and Big Tree Road
On March 23, a 17-year-old was shot in the stomach during a carjacking attempt.
The teen and his friend, Perry Nida, 27, drove to South Daytona to meet a girl, according to police. While stopped at a red light on South Ridgewood Avenue, an armed man entered their vehicle.
The man told the teen and Nida to get out of the vehicle. The 17-year-old grabbed the gun and began to wrestle with the suspect, police said. The gun went off and a bullet struck the teen in the stomach.
The next day, Dondre Amador, 21, met a woman at the corner of South Ridgewood Avenue and Big Tree Road, the same intersection.
Amador and the woman, who went by Shammai Taylor, went to a nearby park when four men approached them, pointed a gun and stole his car, according to police. The woman left willingly with the men.
Amador told police he and the woman had been communicating on an app called “Meetme.”
Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call Crime Stopper at 1-888-277-TIPS.