‘I felt a gun in my ribs’: Lyft driver carjacked by passengers
By TJ Dysart
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MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A Milwaukee Lyft driver, Candice Kozinski, was carjacked at gunpoint early Saturday morning while driving a group of passengers at 41st and Hampton.
Kozinski recounted that she had gone out to drive for Lyft after her day job at Aurora as a PSR.
Her fourth ride of the night appeared on her Lyft app as a female passenger, but when she arrived to pick her up, four males got into the car.
“A couple minutes up the road, he’s like, ‘Hey, I feel sick, can you pull over?’ So I thought he was going to puke,” Kozinski said. “I pulled over, and then he was like, ‘Get out of the car.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, crap.'”
She pulled over at 41st and Hampton, and moments later, felt something in her lower back.
“I went and grabbed under the gun, like, under the barrel, and tried to pull it away from them, but they are all stronger than me,” Kozinski said.
Next thing Kozinski knew, she was on the ground, and the perpetrators had sped off with her car. She said police found her car later that night, but not the suspects. On Sunday, the car still had fingerprinting dust applied by detectives.
“The car is there, but it’s not the same,” Kozinski said. “Yes, I am alive, but I was still violated, my property was still violated at the same time.”
Data from the Milwaukee Police Department shows 40 total carjackings since the start of this year, with carjackings down 44% compared to this time last year.
Kozinski said she has since quit her job as a Lyft driver. 12 News has reached out to Lyft for comment, but has not yet heard back.
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