HARRISON, Ohio 輸 Harrison couple hope surveillance video will help police
identify the two African American men that held them at gunpoint while
trying to rob them inside their car.
Dan and Elizabeth did not want to use their last names for this story. The
parents of 8-month-old Brooklyn spent the last two days with her at
Cincinnati Children's Hospital for a severe case of bronchitis.
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They were out looking for a place to eat Monday night when two men got
into the back seat of their car at the corner of Gilbert Avenue and Rogers
Place.
"Next thing I know, there's a guy in the back of my car. He grabs me by
the back of my head and holds my head back and then I felt the cold gun up
to the back of my head. Then I just started crying hysterically,"
Elizabeth said.
Dan, Elizabeth's boyfriend, said the men wanted money and jewelry. After
giving them $20, Elizabeth handed them her wallet so they could use her
ATM card. Together they drove to a nearby PNC Bank.
"He's asking for our code and he's typing it in and it's saying our
balance is 68 cents because, you know, there was nothing on the card," Dan
said.
Elizabeth had spent the remaining money in her account on Christmas
presents for Brooklyn and her two older children.
While in the car, Dan was able to secretly dial 911 and was directing
Elizabeth where to drive to tell dispatchers where they were.
"I just kept telling them to go to that UDF by McDonald's. What's that
street called, Burnet or something? I was trying to say that and probably
said it like 10 times to let the 911 dispatchers know that's where we were
going to be," Dan said.
The couple ended up at the United Dairy Farmers on Burnet Avenue and
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
According to the victims, one of the suspects took Dan inside while the
other kept Elizabeth at gun point inside the car.
Again, the ATM card did not work because there was nothing left in
Elizabeth's account. Dan told WLWT News 5 that on his way out of UDF, he
was able to walk ahead of the suspect, open the driver's door, pull his
girlfriend out, grab the car keys and hit the car alarm.
Dan said both suspects ran away from the scene and the police arrived
shortly after.
"I want everybody who drives to Cincinnati and lives around there to keep
your doors locked at all times because you never know. It was dark. We
didn't see them coming," Elizabeth said.
Cincinnati police are investigating, but have not released any
surveillance videos or pictures of the suspects.
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