3 Charged In Carjacking Spree In Downers Grove, Warrenville

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Law enforcement said three carjackings were linked to one crew over a two-week period.

Charges were filed against a 17-year-old juvenile, as well as Emanuel Embry, 19, and Daysean Washington-Davis, 19. The latter was described as the getaway driver.

Emanuel Embry is charged with a string of carjackings in DuPage County. (Credit: DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office)

Daysean Washington-Davis is charged with a string of carjackings in DuPage County. (Credit: DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office)

In the Prairie Avenue incident, prosecutors said the juvenile came up to the woman and her daughter in their vehicle – which was parked in their garage – and knocked on the window, pulled a gun, and said, “give me the car.”

The victim threw the keys to the juvenile and got out with her daughter, police said.

Police said on Friday, Dec. 13, Warrenville police got a call on County Ridge Road about a carjacking. As the victim drove, he was followed by a car with all three suspects inside, prosecutors said.

The victim got out of his car and started walking toward his house – at which point prosecutors said the 17-year-old and Embry came up to him. Both were armed and in masks, prosecutors said.

Embry and the juvenile demanded the man’s car and wallet, and drove off in the car, police said.

About 20 minutes later, just before 2:30 p.m., Downers Grove police were called for a carjacking on Hawkins Street.

In that incident, a pregnant woman said she was sitting in her car in the driveway when the juvenile and Embry came up – again both in masks and with guns, prosecutors said.

Embry and the teen ordered the woman out of her car and drove off in it, police said.

In that instance, a friend of the victim’s managed to follow in his Dodge Charger, and confronted the suspects on Route 53, prosecutors said.

The juvenile and Embry jumped out, but one of them stole the friend’s charter, prosecutors said.

The car was eventually found with the juvenile, who was arrested this past Friday, prosecutors said.

Washington-Davis was arrested at his apartment on Tuesday, and Embry was arrested in Chicago several hours later, prosecutors said.

With one of the defendants, Berlin said, “We caught him with a cache of assault rifles and handguns, as well as body armor.”