By Cam Lucadou-Wells and Brendan Rees
Police have released CCTV footage in Dandenong North related to a mother being recently carjacked at gunpoint in Narre Warren.
The victim’s car – a white VW Golf R – was seen driven with false number plates on Stud Road about 9am on 28 July.
As police tried to intercept, the car sped away along a service lane.
Soon after, it was involved in a crash with another car on the corner of Stud and Brady roads.
No one was injured in the collision.
The VW was found abandoned in a driveway with a man fleeing the scene.
The CCTV footage is of a man in his 20s and Asian in appearance loitering in a home driveway and using his phone.
He takes several steps up the driveway, looks up towards the home’s camera and then flees on foot.
Southern Metro Region Crime Team detectives say they haven’t established whether the man was involved in the carjacking on Harrington Drive, Narre Warren just after 9pm on 26 July.
The victim, a 57-year-old Narre Warren South woman, was rear-ended by a four-wheel-drive as she travelled along the drive.
Detective Sergeant Dean Higgins, of Victoria Police, said the woman got out of her car to exchange details with the driver.
She was approached by two men from the four wheel drive where police allege one of the men produced a handgun and demanded her keys.
“When she refused initially the male with the firearm has hit her with what we believe to be the butt of the firearm in the mouth,” Detective Sgt Higgins said.
The two men, described as African in appearance, got into the victim’s car and drove away. The victim received minor facial injuries.
Detective Sgt Higgins described the attack as “horrendous.”
“To have a firearm pointed at you and threatened with a firearm in the dark of night is horrific.”
He warned crash victims to not to get out of their car unless they felt safe: “Have a look first before getting out of the vehicle. If you don’t believe it is safe, just drive off towards your nearest police station.”
Any information to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppersvic.com.au
