NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee announced Thursday that a man has been sentenced in connection with multiple carjacking offenses.
The USAO said in a release that a rideshare driver was in an Antioch parking lot on the afternoon of May 30, 2019, when Estifanos Kumssa — then 18 years old — banged on the window of the driver’s car with a pink and black handgun, demanding money. When the driver reportedly told Kumssa that he had no money, Kumssa allegedly put the gun through the cracked window, took the driver’s wallet and demanded that the driver get out of his car.
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Then, Kumssa got into the driver’s seat, unlocked the passenger door for an accomplice to climb in and fled the scene. The rideshare driver later positively identified Kumssa as the person who put the gun through his open window during the carjacking.
Less than six hours after that carjacking, dispatch operators were alerted to another carjacking in the 2500 block of Murfreesboro Pike. In the second incident, the vehicle owner was cleaning a business at the time of the carjacking while another victim was sitting in the vehicle waiting for the business owner to finish…