MELBOURNE, Fla. — Melbourne police are searching for a couple accused of pushing a 79-year-old woman out of her car after she offered them a ride.
Nancy Deane walked to her driveway to turn off a car alarm at about 1:15 a.m. Thursday where she said she encountered a man and woman who asked her for a ride.
Before she could respond, they got into the car and told her to drive them to a home on Grant Street, investigators said.
When they arrived at the residence, the woman jumped out of the car and the man tried to grab the keys from Deane, the Melbourne Police Department said.
Deane refused to give up the keys, prompting the man to throw her out of the 2004 Lincoln Town Car and hit her head, police said.
“I tried to fight them off,” Deane said. “He pushed me out of the car and onto the pavement.”
Watch Deane's interview with Channel 9 below:
The other woman got back into the car and the two were last seen driving south, investigators said.
"He threw me out and left me there," she said.
She walked back home and a man on a bike rode beside her to make sure she arrived safely.
Deane, a grandmother and a missionary, said she isn’t angry, but is "just sad."
The culprits were described as a black woman with long hair and a black man with a “scruffy” beard and wearing dark clothing, police said. The car has the Florida tag: 314-LUN.
“The one mistake I made was getting in the car in the first place,” Deane said.
She said she hopes she gets her car back soon.
“My hope is that my car is returned. It’s the only car I have. My husband is very ill,” she said.
But while she’s missing her car, she’s glad she still has her life.
“They could have killed me very easily,” Deane said.
Deane said she hopes her car will be returned because she needs to get her husband to his doctor's appointments.
Anyone with information on the incident or whereabouts of the victim’s blue Town Car, is asked to contact the Melbourne Police Department at 321-608-6731.
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