JSO: K-9 helps nab 16-year-old carjacking suspect near I-95

A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office officer used a PIT maneuver and a K-9 to take down a teenager accused of carjacking an 81-year-old woman at gunpoint, a police report said.

The victim spoke exclusively to Action News Jax on Friday.

She said she was getting home from work Thursday evening, and getting out of her car.

“I pulled in my garage,” she said. “And when I went to step out, this man ran behind me with a shotgun.”

Police say that man was Eric Davis, 16.

The victim said she believes Davis was waiting for her to come home and may have been hiding in the bushes.

“I said ‘Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot me!’” she said. “He said ‘Give me your keys! And get in the house!’”

That’s when police say he took off in her 2015 Ford Escape.

It was hours later when a JSO officer spotted the car, near I-95 and Emerson Street. The officer called for backup and tried to pull over the car near the Bowden Road overpass.

JSO said Davis wouldn't stop, so the officer used his patrol car to ram the Ford Escape, disabling the vehicle.

According to JSO, Davis ran into the woods and resisted arrest even after a K-9 tracked him down.

Davis is charged with carjacking and resisting arrest.

The victim tells Action News Jax her car was badly damaged in the PIT maneuver.

“They told me it was in bad shape, bad shape,” she said. “So I haven’t seen it.”

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