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Two Female Democratic Politicians Carjacked at Gunpoint in Separate Incidents

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)

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Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, talks with Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, on the floor of the Illinois Senate at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, August 31, 2021. [Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register]
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Five suspects are in custody in Delaware after they were found in a vehicle that was stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon.

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.

Police say three men driving a Durango took a black Mercedes Benz SUV that belonged to Lightford. The state senate majority leader was dropping her hairstylist off at her home when the incident occurred.

Police said multiple gunshots were fired during the incident, but the Senator and her husband were unharmed.

Both women, Scanlon and Lightford, supported police reforms following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May 2020.