Neighbors Recount Brutal, Violent Mid-City Carjacking That Killed a Woman

It was shaping up to be a beautiful afternoon in Mid-City. {snip}

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That all came to a screeching halt around 1:30 in the afternoon near the intersection of North Scott and Bienville when neighbor Todd Ecker saw a gray car pull into the intersection.

“It was dragging a lady by the seatbelt outside the car. The door had closed on the seatbelt, and she was stuck in it… I got out of my vehicle screaming please stop other neighbors were also screaming,” said Ecker.

He drove off to stop them, a commotion that Leanne Mascar says she’ll never forget.

“She was screaming, and she was screaming to please let her go and then they slowed down and opened the door to kick her out and they made the corner by Rouses. As soon as I saw her, I screamed. I just started running for her I thought if I could somehow, I don’t know what I could do, but I thought if I could dislodge her from this car … when I looked down her body was already there, {snip}” said Mascar.

The NOPD says that the victim, Linda Frickey, 73, was dragged nearly an entire block, her arm severed before she was released from the car. {snip}

Linda Frickey

“She was laying there naked, and I thought the indignity she just suffered it was already too much,” said Mascar.

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While they recovered the woman’s car about a mile away, the NOPD only said four carjackers were responsible for the brutal carjacking. Neighbors say they couldn’t have been much older than teenagers.

Teen carjackers

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