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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is scary.  The Wheaton carjacking/ shooting suspect was chased on foot into my Kensington neighborhood today, but was caught within an hour, according to NBC4.

I used to be fine with going to the Wheaton Target, but this is I believe the eighth carjacking at the mall since December.[/quote]

Yeah this one unnerved me- I was there, parked in the surface lot by Target/Costco, with my 4yo right around that time. We must have left right before it happened.  Does the county government even recognize this as a problem? You should feel unsafe taking your kids shopping during the daylight hours, but this really makes me reconsider whether I should.[/quote]
This story is terrifying. I used to go to that Target/Costco probably once a week and I always felt I was being smart about it because I was parking in the surface lot there and not the garage. For that to happen at 11:30 am on a Saturday is beyond brazen. [/quote]

Very brazen.  There was another attempted carjacking in the garage near Costco recently, and there was some subtle victim shaming on our neighborhood listserv and Nextdoor about how you should never use the parking garages. Well now apparently you shouldn’t park in the lot either!  I’ve stopped taking my own kids to that Costco in part because they are distracting, my guard is absolutely down when I’m unloading the cart to my car.  You need to be alert and I was lax for a long time.[/quote]

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