I love the phrase "pistol-whipped".

There are two security cameras that cover that corner. I hope that the police make use of them.

These dumba/sses are obviously not from the area. It is so busy on that corner and there is usually a police presence in the area. I hope these idiots are caught soon.

This was in Journal Square...
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thin....purple men?

more thorough JJ reporting.

2 HIT DRIVER WITH GUN, STEAL CAR
Monday, November 09, 2009
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Two men carjacked a new Nissan and pistol-whipped its 49-year-old driver yesterday afternoon in Jersey City, police reports said.

Jersey City Police were called to an apartment building on Garrison Avenue near Sip Avenue at 1:36 p.m. on the report of a carjacking of a black 2010 Nissan Maxima from outside a house on Garrison Avenue, reports said.

Witnesses said that two men walked up to the 49-year-old man, a Nutley resident, pistol-whipped him and drove away west on Sip Avenue, reports said. Police declined to say why the Nutley man was at Garrison Avenue.A witness told police he leapt into a car with the driver and together followed the Nissan to Route 1 & 9, reports said. The stolen car was last seen pulling out of a gas station in the southbound lane of the highway, reports said.

An attendant at the gas station told the witness that the carjackers had asked him for directions to Route 1 & 9, evidently unaware that they were already on the highway, police said.

The suspects were described as thin men, one more than 6-feet tall, wearing a black leather jacket, sporting a chin-beard, and armed with a handgun. The second was described at shorter, also sporting a chin beard.

The victim was taken to Christ Hospital for treatment of a gash to his mouth and bruises to the right side of face and head, reports said.

Anyone with information should call the Jersey City Police Department tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.