A 30-year-old woman was arrested. Police aren't sure what was behind the series of thefts and crashesA woman carjacked two cars, crashed into two others, injured several people and hit two pedestrians -- killing one man -- before she was arrested in Delaware Sunday, state police said.
Brittallia Semaan, 30, of New Castle, was arrested by an off-duty law enforcement officer who witnessed the second carjacking, Delaware State Police Master Corporal Heather Pepper said at a press conference.The events started Sunday around 9:30 a.m. in New Castle. Police said Semaan entered the passenger side of a car, and the owners -- a 67-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman -- tried, unsuccessfully, to get her out.
Two young people who were in the back seat were able to escape before Semaan drove off in the car, hitting the woman as she did, police said. The woman was hurt, but her injuries were not life-threatening. Moments later, Semaan hit a pedestrian, a 48-year-old man from New Castle, police said. He was hospitalized, but died.
Semaan fled that scene on Route 9 and drove to the parking lot of a SPCA center in Old New Castle, where she hit another pedestrian, police said.