Illinois Senate majority leader says husband fired shots after they were carjacked

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/crime/2021/12/23/22851976/kimberly-lightford-carjacking-husband-fired-shots-gun-concealed-carry-permit-broadview

Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford revealed Thursday that her husband fired shots at carjackers after a Mercedes SUV they were in was seized from them at gunpoint in the western suburbs.

Lightford and her husband Eric McKennie were in the Mercedes dropping off a friend Tuesday night in Broadview when three masked men in a Dodge Durango boxed in the SUV, police said.

“I begged them not to shoot my husband, not to shoot me,” Lightford told reporters Thursday morning at a Christmas present giveaway for children in Proviso Township. “They took everything off me that I had of value.”

Lightford said her husband gave the carjackers the keys to the car.

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[PTWB]

1. I'm glad they were unharmed.

There’s no telling what could have happened if her husband hadn’t been licensed to carry and able to defend her and himself.

[Woodswalker]

2. I think it said he fired

As they drove off. Unless that was sarcasm?

[PTWB]

3. Did it say that?

[NickB79]

4. It's not really clear

“They had separated me and my husband,” she said on WGN-TV. “After they got the guns off of us, my husband told me to run. I ran, reluctantly, because I didn’t want to leave him there. And it was a scary run because now shots are being fired. I thought for sure they were going to shoot me.”

Sounds like he drew and started shooting when they lowered their guns, and she ran.

[Woodswalker]

5. Maybe, not very clear is it

[ExciteBike66]

6. LOL yeah right, they really got lucky here...

Husband's cowboy actions could easily have gotten them both killed. Just let them take the car, it was a loaner anyway...

[PTWB]

7. Compliant robbery victims frequently get murdered despite their compliance.

Is that a risk you’re willing to take?