PHILADELPHIA - A Wilmington man is facing federal charges in connection with the armed carjacking of Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon in South Philadelphia, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Josiah Brown, 19, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint on charges of carjacking and carrying and using a firearm during a crime of violence.According to the congresswoman's account of the carjacking, the suspect's car partially blocked her 2017 Acura MDX that was parked in a parking space.
She thought the people in the car were waiting to pick someone up from the park. That's when two armed people got out of the waiting car and demanded Scanlon's car keys.