RICHMOND (BCN) -- Police are investigating whether a carjacking in Richmond on Thursday night could be connected to three other carjackings and attempted carjackings in the area this week.
According to police Sgt. Bisa French, the carjacking Thursday happened at about 9:30 p.m. on Park Lane.
The victim had just arrived in the area and was getting out of her car when a man approached her with a gun and ordered her to leave her keys and purse in the car.
The woman grabbed her purse and left. As she left, she saw a second man emerge from the bushes and get into her car with the first man. Both men drove off in her car.
A short time later, the suspects used the woman's car to rob a toll collector at gunpoint on the Carquinez Bridge, French said.
According t California Highway Patrol Officer Marvin Williford, a man in a brown Nissan sedan that had been reported stolen out of Richmond robbed a toll collector at gunpoint at about 9:39 p.m.
The suspect had wrapped a scarf over his face to conceal his identity, Williford said.
The CHP and Vallejo police are investigating the robbery, but so far no suspects have been identified or arrested. The toll collector was not injured, Williford said.
Similarities in suspect descriptions have led police to believe that the same two men could have tried to carjack two other people Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the same area and successfully carjacked a man Tuesday in a nearby unincorporated area of the county, French said.
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