Florida woman found dead in burnt-out car after caught-on-camera carjacking: report

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By Steve Janoski

A Florida woman was discovered shot dead in a flaming vehicle after being carjacked at a busy intersection last week in a brazen caught-on-camera abduction, reports said.

Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas, 31, was driving a green Acura when she was confronted by an armed assailant and abducted at about 6 p.m. on April 11 of Homestead, according to Florida’s Spectrum 13.

“You need to do something now because I don’t know what’s going on,” the witness said in a 911 call released by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, according to the Daily Mail.

About two hours later, authorities responded to an Osceola County construction site after reports of smoke and gunfire, the outlet said. There, cops found what they believe to be Guerrero’s charred remains inside a torched Dodge Durango.

Police also found a dozen 10mm shell casings and one bullet, the outlet said.

Cops are still waiting for the DNA identification. But in the meantime, they’re hunting for suspects in the savage killing.

“There is no clear indicator why somebody would do this,” Seminole County Sheriff Dennis M. Lemma said. “But we do feel and believe … that this was not a random act of violence.”

“The perpetrators knew exactly who they were going after, why they were going after them,” he added.

Guerrero, a native of the Dominican Republic, was a US citizen who lived with her husband in Homestead, southwest of Miami, the Mail said. They worked at a barbershop and beauty salon.

In the footage of her carjacking, a ski mask-clad man got out of an Acura sedan, walked up to the driver’s side of Guerrero’s SUV and pointed the pistol directly at her, the Mail said.

When Guererro unlocked the doors, the gunman sat in the backseat before moving to the passenger seat, the outlet said. Then Guerrero started moving again — trailed closely by the Acura.

“It is incredibly frightening to watch the boldness of this suspect, this perpetrator getting out of the car, wearing a hood, carrying a weapon in broad daylight, getting in the vehicle,” the sheriff said at a Saturday press conference.

The carjacking — which the Mail said happened just before Guerrero’s 32nd birthday — came after Guerrero called her husband to say she was being followed, the sheriff added.

The Acura had rammed her, she told him. Her husband told her to keep driving.

Neither of them called the police, however.

“There’s a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that will leave people scratching your head,” Lemma said.

“Why did she and her husband not call 911? I don’t know,” he continued. “Why did she stop at the red light? There’s a lot of things that we’ll absolutely never know, but this is a tragic incident nevertheless.”

Cops didn’t release other details about potential suspects. But they believe the gunman forced Guerrero to head to the construction site.

Guerrero’s husband — – who has no criminal record — told cops his wife was visiting family in Central Florida, the Mail said.

But investigators couldn’t find family in the area, and still aren’t sure where she was going.