Carjacked on drive home from work; Hostage taken on 100mph run from cops

NewsNet5.com is reporting that a man was coming home from work at about 2 a.m. when two men approached with guns drawn.

Police told NewsNet5 the men told the alleged victim, Jeremy Schumacher, that they wanted to go shopping. The men checked Jeremy's wallet, found his girlfriend's credit cards and forced her to come outside.

The media outlet states the men allegedly took the woman, later identified as Pamela Logan, to the bank to make a withdrawal and then drove her to a Wal-Mart where they sent her inside with a shopping list.

Although the gunmen waited outside the store with Schumacher, his girlfriend told a Wal-Mart manager that she needed police.

As officers approached, NewsNet5 reports the gunmen forced Schumacher to drive away from the store and led police on a 100 mph chase along Morse Road. The chase ended in a parking lot on Belcher Drive, where the street came to an end.

"When we got here, the guy threw the gun in my lap," Schumacher was quoted as saying. The cops were all with shotguns. (The gunman) says, 'Tell the cops it's your gun.'"

The men, later identified as Stanley Carr Jr. and Hamp Allen, were taken into custody, and charged with aggravated robbery.

Commentary:
While we cannot know where Schumacher works, or what his employer's policies on firearms are, there is a lesson here for any business that affirmatively renders its employees and customers defenseless by banning firearms on company property, even in personal vehicles. Such bans not only create victim disarmament zones at the workplace, but they also create a defacto ban on self-defense while traveling to and from the place of business.

When the Ohio House of Representatives passed Sub. House Bill 12 in 2003, a specific exemption prohibited companies from telling licensed customers and employees they could not store a firearm in their own automobile on the company parking lot. This provision was stripped from the final bill by the state Senate, rendering people defenseless (even on the drive to and from work).

Even now, in Oklahoma, a group of corporations is fighting a newly-passed state law which would return the right of self-defense to customers and employees (at least in part) by exempting parking lots from places where businesses can ban firearms. How tragic.