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Retirees Plan to Leave Detroit After Armed Carjacking at Home

August 20, 2014, 7:48 PM

 

At a time when Detroit has been generating some good press and a healthy buzz about young people moving into the city and gobbling up housing in downtown and Midtown, there continue to be stories like this in the neighborhoods.

Roger Weber of WDIV reports that a retired couple in their 70s, who were school teachers and long time residents of the city, are fed up and plan to move out of Detroit after the wife was carjacked in her driveway in broad daylight on Tuesday. The couple has lived in the same northwest Detroit home in the University District for 27 years, and the city even longer. 

"I love Detroit but I don't want to stay here," Shirley McKee, 77,  said. " I really don't." 

WDIV reports that it started when McKee, who has has history of health problems including heart surgery and stroke, pulled into her driveway around 3:30 p.m.

"When I got out of the car this young man standing right at the tail end of the car with the gun, and he put it up to my head, right in my face," she said.

"And I just stood there and stared at him. He said, I'll kill you. Give me the keys. I'll kill you,'" McKee told WDIV.

McKee complied and the man drove off on 7 Mile Road east of Livernois with Shirley's blue-green Ford Fusion, her groceries and her cane, WDIV reported. Her husband Preston McKee came rushing home after the incident.  

She tells WDIV that she's afraid to leave her house and has had a hard time sleeping since the incident.

Preston talked about leaving the city.

"I guess at our age, you know, it's a big change, but we have to be concerned about our safety," he told WDIV. 

Authorities are looking for the carjacker. 

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