{"id":324052,"date":"2026-05-20T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:00:26","slug":"carjacking-suspect-randomly-targeted-mother-shot-her-before-stealing-car-in-orion-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324052\/","title":{"rendered":"Carjacking suspect randomly targeted mother, shot her before stealing car in Orion Township"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Suspect Suspect in custody after random carjacking, shooting in Oakland County<\/a> <\/p>\n

An undercover officer helped take a carjacking suspect into custody after a brief pursuit following a shooting in Orion Township early Tuesday evening. A woman in her 40s was approached by a man who was waiting outside a restaurant in Oakland County and shot her, before taking her car keys and fleeing in her vehicle. The Oakland County Sheriff said drones, K-9 units, the auto theft team, and a helicopter were used to locate the suspect and the stolen vehicle. The suspect tried fleeing from police before crashing in Groveland Township. He fled on foot before being arrested.<\/p>\n

(FOX 2) – An undercover officer helped take a carjacking suspect into custody after a brief pursuit following a shooting in Orion Township early Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

A woman in her 40s was approached by a man who was waiting outside a restaurant in Oakland County and shot her, before taking her car keys and fleeing in her vehicle.<\/p>\n

The Oakland County Sheriff said drones, K-9 units, the auto theft team, and a helicopter were used to locate the suspect and the stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n

The suspect tried fleeing from police before crashing in Groveland Township. He fled on foot before being arrested.<\/p>\n

The scene unfolded near the Old Navy Store in the Baldwin Commons Plaza.<\/p>\n

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Carjacking scene in Orion Township. <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Ann Arbor man targeted the victim randomly after waiting outside a Panera Bread, according to sheriff Michael Bouchard.<\/p>\n

He is currently on probation for assault with intent to do great bodily harm. He has not been charged yet and therefore, police declined to identify him.<\/p>\n

He initially refused to give his name after being arrested, Bouchard said, and officers used fingerprint technology to identify the suspect.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the hip and lost a significant amount of blood, but is expected to be okay.<\/p>\n

The entire incident lasted approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes from when the shooting took place to the suspect being taken into custody.<\/p>\n

The Source: The Oakland County Sheriff was cited for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Oakland County<\/a>Ann Arbor<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody after random carjacking, shooting in Oakland County An undercover officer helped take a carjacking suspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[60845,2042,249,100,143,904,145,144,1181,60842],"class_list":["post-324052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ann-arbor","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-mi","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us","tag-washtenaw-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}