Man, 18, charged with carjacking woman at Tony Jaros bar in Minneapolis

Nick Ferraro, Pioneer Press
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An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged in federal court with carjacking a woman at her work in northeast Minneapolis.

Most of the June 9 incident at Tony Jaros River Garden, located at Marshall Street and Lowry Avenue, was caught by the bar’s parking lot surveillance camera.

According to federal court documents, Shamir Nathann Black of Minneapolis approached the 51-year-old woman just after 4 p.m. and demanded her car keys. He pushed her to the ground and hit her on the head with a gun, charges allege.

A bystander tried to help the woman but was also assaulted by Black. Black pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger, but it did not discharge a bullet, charges say.

Black and an accomplice got into the woman’s car, but witnesses pulled Black from the driver’s seat and put him on the ground. Black and his accomplice fled the scene on foot.

Minneapolis police officers found a 9mm semiautomatic pistol wrapped in a gray sweatshirt. The gun had been reported stolen in Prior Lake in April. Investigators reviewed a social media video that showed Black waving around a handgun that matched the one recovered at the crime scene.

At Black’s north Minneapolis home, officers recovered a stolen Volkswagen Jetta that had been taken in a Prior Lake burglary on the same night the firearm was stolen. Black was arrested on Friday.

Black is charged with one count of carjacking. He made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court and was ordered temporarily detained pending a formal detention hearing on Thursday.

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