Suspects wanted for stealing woman’s car at gunpoint in northeast Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police need your help finding two suspects they believe are responsible for stealing a woman’s car at gunpoint in northeast Memphis.

Memphis Police say a little before 6 p.m. Tuesday, two suspects came to the Glen Townhomes right off Summer and robbed a woman as she was going to her car.

The victim, Shameka Allen says she saw two people near the mailboxes but figured they were visiting friends in the complex. As she went back to the car to get her backpack, she said she heard a voice nearby.

“It’s like in a split second if you even blink they’re on you,” Allen said. “I heard yea and I’m looking up, I don’t know you and that’s when I looked up, and when I turned my head that’s when I saw the gun.”

One of the suspects put a gun in the woman’s face as they demanded the car keys to her 2016 Nissan Rogue.

“I’m hearing him talk and the other guy like “them keys, them keys” and I’m like what and they snatch the keys,” Allen said.

Allen says the suspects threw her phone so she couldn’t call 911 and sped away in her Nissan Rogue.

“If they wouldn’t have had the weapon then it would have been a fight for my life,” Allen said.

The victim, who is a military veteran, says she wasn’t carrying a firearm at the time, which left her helpless. She says the suspects looked between 15 to 20.

“I looked in they eyes and they had put they little surgical mask up and I’m thinking, in all honesty, you know how you want to beat a kid up? That’s what I wanted to do,” said the victim, Shameka Allen, “but a gun and a fist those two don’t go together.”

Allen says with carjacking and auto thefts dramatically rising, it’s a must to have a weapon if you legally can.

“To me, you have to have a gun, you have to be able to protect yourself,” Allen said. “It could have been anybody that day, it just happened to be me.”

Memphis Police say no arrests have been made at this time.