FILE - Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Washington. U.S. Rep. Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint by two men in a south Philadelphia park but wasn’t injured, police and her office said. Police said Scanlon, was walking to her parked vehicle after a meeting in FDR park shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, when two armed men demanded her keys. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP, File)
Mary Gay Scanlon
Illinois Energy
State police say Scanlon’s blue Acura MDX was located Wednesday night in Newark, Delaware. That’s about 45 miles from Philadelphia. State police say the suspects were being processed.
Philadelphia police say Scanlon was carjacked while walking to her parked vehicle after a meeting Wednesday when two armed men demanded her keys. Police say that the Democrat handed them over and that one suspect drove off while the other followed in a sport utility vehicle.
Scanlon was physically unharmed.
A day before, Illinois Senator Kimberly Lightford and her husband Eric McKennie were carjacked at gunpoint in Chicago.
Lightford is the second highest ranking Democrat in the Illinois Senate.
