Carjacker brutally beat grandmother, 72, before being killed in car accident

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US woman who was savagely beaten by a carjacker who then died when he crashed the stolen car says “the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery.”When Shirlene Hernandez stopped to buy a drink at a petrol station in San Antonio, Texas, the criminal grabbed her car keys and slammed her in the face with the car door, leaving her face severely bruised.Even though three witnesses tried to intervene, the assailant managed to drive off in her car.However, the stolen car was then involved in a fatal collision on the nearby interstate, killing the carjacker, according to police.“There’s a lot of people who would say what goes around comes around, karma.

I did not think that," Ms Hernandez told local news station WCAX3."The only thing I got [was] really sad because he had died.

Now granted… he had hurt me, but the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery.”She said she was grateful for the people that had tried to help her at the petrol station and added: “I just hope that if this situation happens to anybody else, that somebody will step forward, leap forward, run forward, whatever and help the person that it’s happening to,” she told WOAI.For more incredible stories from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters hereShirlene’s only problem now is that her car was destroyed in the accident and she needs to replace it in order to get to work.She said: “I just don't want to quit working, and so I've got to somehow get another car.

And that takes money and stuff, so I've got to figure out what to do”.Her grand-daughter Helen Garcia has organised a fundraising campaign to buy Shirlene a new car.Helen has set a $5,000 (about £3,800) goal for the campaign but it has already reached an amazing $26,599 (which is.