A Seattle woman says she feels unsafe in her own home after thieves carjacked her at gunpoint and threatened to kill her.
Noelle Fox told KIRO 7 it happened outside her Lake City apartment last Saturday around 7 p.m. She said she had just parked her car with her two dogs, Gatsby and Bigfoot, in the backseat.
“There’s a guy talking to me with a gun pointed at me asking me for a ride,” Fox explained.
She said a woman was also standing on the passenger side of her car.
“He said, ‘Shut up or you’re going to die,’ and I said, ‘I have to get my aggressive dogs out of the car,’ and the woman said, ‘Hurry,’” Fox explained.
Instead of driving it, Fox said she offered her car as long as she could get her dogs outside safely.
“I knew once I got in the car with him, I had no idea what he would have done to me,” she added. “And I knew that if my safety did become compromised, I knew it would be a done deal and it would have been much worse if I had been in the car with him.”
Fox watched the thieves make off in her blue Subaru with everything needed to run her business as a content creator. She said there were thousands of dollars worth of items in the car.
“They also got my laptop with my card and everything in it. The truck bed, you know the dog crates in it. It was difficult without a vehicle,” she said.
Fox said she feels unsafe because she knows the thieves also got away with her personal information.
“The threats to my life were very real, which only adds to the discomfort after that event … just knowing that he has my registration and my house keys and he knows where I live,” she said.
Fox told KIRO 7 that Seattle police found her car a few days later about a mile away. She’s not sure what condition it’s in, but said she’s focused on getting out of the neighborhood.
“I’ve had a lot of panic attacks just walking the dogs to go to the bathroom because this is in my own front yard and this is where it happened so I don’t really feel safe anywhere,” she said. .
If you would like to help Fox recover financially from this traumatic incident, click here for the GoFundMe.
