UPS worker speaks out about attack, carjacking in parking lot

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte woman told Eyewitness News how she was violently attacked on the way to work Wednesday.

An attack on a 23-year old woman left her with a swollen black eye and huge gashes in her head that had to be stapled 25 times.
 
The woman, who asked not to be identified, was headed to work around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the UPS hub on Cottonwood Street. She had just gotten out of the car when two men ran up to her. One of them had a crowbar.

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"He hit me three times, and I turned around and he just whacked me in the face with the bar," she said.
 
She dropped her lunch bag, and keys and ran through the parking lot, but she said her attacker tripped and kicked her.
 
"I kept trying to fight him off. I would get up and he would chase me down some more. He would not let me go, and kept hitting me and everything, no matter how much I blocked, or screamed or tried to run," she said.
 
Bleeding and slipping out of consciousness, she thought of her father, Rufus Dinuwell. In 1999 he was shot and killed by teens who tried to rob his neighborhood store on North Tryon Street.
 
"He went through the exact situation before they killed him. So, I was thinking maybe I shouldn't fight back too hard before they both use brutal force on me," she said.
 
Eventually the suspects took off in her car. A UPS driver found her and called 911. Police later recovered the car and arrested 16-year-old Deonte Grier.
 
The victim wants anyone with information to help police find the second suspect.
 
"Please come forth, let them know who it is. It could easily be you instead of me, it could have easily been you in the parking lot," she said.
 
The victim said a security guard is normally in the parking lot, but she did not see one the night she was attacked.

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