Man carjacks pregnant woman, shoots at officer, police say

A Boynton Beach man carjacked a pregnant woman’s vehicle at gunpoint and shot at a police officer before crashing the car into a utility pole, investigators said.

The officer, Jivanet Rivera, was not hurt but later found a bullet hole in the rear driver’s side door of her police car, according to a Boynton Beach arrest report.

The man accused of shooting at her, Traynard Johnson, 30, was arrested shortly after the carjacking Sunday when he crashed the woman’s Chevrolet Cavalier, the report said.

He told police, “I wish I would have killed one of you guys, If I can I’m gonna kill 18 more of you,” according to the report.

Johnson also accused police of killing his brother, a claim that could not be immediately substantiated.

The carjacking happened about noon Sunday when the woman, who is six months pregnant, was sitting in her car outside a home in the 400 block of Northwest 12th Avenue waiting for a passenger.

As she waited, Johnson, with a handgun in his waistband, got into the passenger’s seat and told the woman to drive, police said.

She ran from the car and called 911 from a nearby home and was eventually able to flag down an officer and point out her stolen car, investigators said.

Rivera made a U-turn to go after the Cavalier and as she did, she heard the gunshot that hit her car door. She flipped on her lights and siren and took off after the stolen car.

Johnson eventually jumped a curb and crashed into a utility pole at Barton Memorial Park in the 1100 block of Northwest Fifth Street.

Officers found an unloaded .45-caliber handgun inside the stolen Cavalier, police said.

Two other vehicles, a Dodge Caravan and a Ford Focus, were struck by bullets during the incident, according to police, but no injuries were reported.

Johnson is being held at the Palm Beach County jail without bond. He is facing charges that include carjacking, attempted second-degree murder and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.

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