An investigator examines a heavily damaged SUV before it is towed from the scene of a fatal accident in North Philadelphia, Friday July 25, 2014.PHILADELPHIA – Two men forced a woman into her sport utility vehicle at gunpoint and drove off but soon lost control of it and plowed into a group of people selling fruit at a street corner to raise money for their church, killing two young boys and their teenage sister, police said. Two women, including the children’s mother, were critically injured.
“Three innocent children had their lives taken,” Homicide Capt. John Clark said.
The accident occurred late Friday morning about a mile from where the carjacking occurred.
Clark said the carjackers may have blown a tire as they turned a corner at high speed. The car ended up in a wooded area, its front end smashed against a stand of trees.
“Something obviously went horribly wrong,” Clark said.