Father of Doctor Killed in Unsolved DC Carjacking Worries Killers Could Harm Others

A yr after carjackers killed a health care provider whereas taking his Mercedes in Northwest D.C., his father worries the thieves within the unsolved crime should still be harming others.

Dr. Rakesh Patel was doing superior medical coaching at Washington Hospital Middle, caring for the sickest, most injured sufferers, when the thieves jumped into his automobile close to Florida Avenue and 18^th Avenue in Adams Morgan on March 8, 2022.

He’d left it operating whereas he dropped off a bundle for his girlfriend.

Patel tried to cease the boys, however they ran him over and drove away.

Safety video reveals two masked males leaving the automobile at sixteenth Avenue and Roxanna Street in Northwest later that night time. They returned the following day with what seemed like a bottle of bleach they usually took a ground mat.

“As soon as they mentioned that they had a lead, after which they mentioned they misplaced the lead, and that’s about it,” mentioned his father, Dr. Raj Patel.

He mentioned the grief of dropping his son has not diminished.

“It hurts to know that, , no person can reverse what occurred, no person can change it,” Patel mentioned. “However I believe the those that dedicated the crime, that in the event that they don’t go after them, they carry on doing it.”

With the passing of a yr and no arrests within the case, he wonders in the event that they’re nonetheless stealing vehicles or would possibly kill one other harmless particular person.

“My son shouldn’t be going to return again, however not less than someone else’s son is perhaps saved,” Patel mentioned. “Perhaps it’s subsequent the mayor of Washington, D.C.’s son is perhaps there. You don’t know. It may very well be the president’s son. You by no means know, however they are often saved, proper?”  

D.C. police ask anybody with info that would assist discover the killers to contact them.