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‘Take it! Take it!’ Watch a man get violently carjacked in front of his Florida home

UPDATE: On Saturday, Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested two suspects in the carjacking, Victor Senatore, 24, and GianPiero Gasparin, 17.

A terrifying carjacking went down for a Florida man right in front of his Windermere-area home Monday night.

According to a report from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the victim told had pulled into his driveway around 10 p.m. and was parking his car when he saw the two men run across the street toward him.

Home security footage provided to police shows two men with facial coverings emerging from the darkness and running toward the 2015 Mercedes sedan. One opens the car door, pulls the victim out and throws him to the ground. The other has a gun drawn, and repeatedly yells, “Get the [bleep] on the ground!”

The suspect with the gun then punches the man while he is lying prone.

“Just take it, just take it, take it,” said the victim, who crawled away back into his house as the one suspect drove off and the other ran away.

He later refused medical attention, cops say.

The suspects made off with the car, as well as valuable belongings in the vehicle, including a $3,000 laptop, which you can clearly see on the passenger seat, and $1,500 golf clubs, as per the police report.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call @CrimelineFL at 800-423-8477.

This story was originally published October 2, 2020 at 1:36 PM.

Madeleine Marr
Miami Herald
Celebrity/real time news reporter Madeleine Marr has been with The Miami Herald since 2003. She has covered such features as travel, fashion and food. In 2007, she helped launch the newspaper’s daily People Page, attending red carpet events, awards ceremonies and press junkets; interviewing some of the biggest names in show business; and hosting her own online show. She is originally from New York City.
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