Man suspected of carjacking woman at Costco in custody, law enforcement sources confirm - NOLA.com
A man suspected of carjacking a woman who was left with a fractured skull is in custody and being questioned by the New Orleans Police Department, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed Sunday.
Police are expected to book the suspect, Tyrese Harris, 18, in connection with Tuesday's carjacking of Kelleye Rhein, a local real estate agent and mother of two, at the Costco store on South Carrollton Avenue while she was pumping gas.
Rhein was outside of the wholesale grocery store Uptown when Harris approached her, got in her car and started driving away. She tried to hang onto her car when Harris ran her over, knocking her unconscious and fracturing her skull, police said.
The carjacking would not be Harris’s first offense. As of Tuesday, he was out on a bond of $12,500 stemming from an Aug. 19 incident in which he is accused of stealing a man's car, and he had a court date scheduled for Feb. 22.
The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office had booked him with two counts of aggravated flight from an officer, illegal possession of stolen things and resisting an officer Aug. 21 and on Sept. 14 an additional charge of armed robbery with a firearm, all in relation to the same incident. On Nov. 10, New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams's office refused those charges and charged him with a single count of aggravated flight from an officer.
In that case, Harris and two other men are accused of approaching a 29-year-old man unloading his car in the 600 block of Washington Avenue (map) in the Irish Channel at about 7:30 p.m. and demanding the man’s keys and phone, police said
The man gave them up and Harris and the other men drove away in his silver 2002 Toyota Camry with the Louisiana license plate 823DMR, police said.
Police didn't immediately say how they linked Harris to Rhein's carjacking, but it was clear that he was under scrutiny by Saturday.
His mom, Ivory Harris, 42, was booked on weapons-related charges that day, though there is no indication it is related to the carjacking at Costco.
Sunday morning, a U.S. Marshal's task force and the NOPD's Violent Offender's Warrant Squad tracked Harris to the 1500 block of Milton Street (map), in the St. Bernard neighborhood of Gentilly, where he surrendered without incident, a source confirmed.
Officers brought him to a police station in Central City for questioning. He had not been transferred to jail as of early Sunday afternoon, the source said.
Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to call Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111. Tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward.
source: https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_1c8bb31a-877e-11ec-a8c4-afcb4dee04a3.html
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