Julia Corker sore, safe after carjacking

The 22-year-old daughter of U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, who was carjacked Wednesday night near Washington, D.C., is sore and shaken but happy to be safe, the senator said.

"Obviously, last night she was very shaken up, but she's doing just fine," Sen. Corker, R-Tenn., said Thursday in a statement. "She's a brave young woman, and she handled herself well."

Sen. Corker's daughter, Julia, was returning home about 9:15 p.m. to the Northwest Washington apartment she shares with her father when someone knocked on her window at a stop sign near the Verizon Center, Corker spokesman Todd Womack said. She was thrown onto the pavement, he said.

Metro Police responded "very, very quickly," and soon the FBI, Capitol Police and the Seat Pleasant, Md., police were involved, Mr. Womack said. D.C. police used Onstar to track down the SUV on Central Avenue in Suitland.

Sen. Corker, who was a block and a half away at another event, also arrived quickly.

The senator and his daughter went to the Seat Pleasant Police Department that night and identified the carjacking suspect.

"Sen. Corker is just very grateful that the people who committed the crime are in custody and Julia was not seriously injured," Mr. Womack said.

Seat Pleasant police apprehended two suspects, said Sgt. Leroy Patterson of the Seat Pleasant police. He said Metro Police took out warrants for the suspects and will handle the investigation because the incident occurred in its jurisdiction.

Staff writer Jacqueline Koch contributed to this story.