Julia Corker

On Wednesday night, two men were arrested by Seat Pleasant police in connection with the carjacking of a Tennessee senator’s daughter. Julia Corker, 22, daughter of Senator Bob Corker was carjacked in Washington, D.C, when she was driving a black Chevrolet Tahoe. The two men thrown her out of the car, an hour later the car was recovered at the Addison Road Plaza Shopping Center at 6250 Central Ave. with two suspects were inside the car, according to Seat Pleasant Police Sgt. Leroy Patterson.

Senator Bob Corker said,

“It happened just half a block from our apartment in the Penn Quarter area, which is about nine blocks from the Capitol, an area … perceived to be a very safe and well-traveled area.”

On Thursday, Bob released a statement in which he praised her daughter as”brave young woman” who faced the situation bravely. In the statement, Bob said,

“You know we were in an area that’s under the D.C. Metro jurisdiction, but the Capitol police also came, the FBI became involved and then the local police in Maryland were incredible, too. All of them were very, very professional. They found the suspects very, very quickly. Julia and I went over late last night, and she identified them.”

At about 9:37 p.m., a man approached to the car in the 700 block of D Street NW to ask the female driver for directions. She was thrown out of the car by a second man which caused her minor injuries, according to a Metropolitan Police release. Seat Pleasant officers located the car at 10:34 p.m. in a shopping center with two men inside the car, they were arrested and interviewed by D.C. police at the District 3 police headquarters in Palmer Park, Leroy Patterson said. The alleged carjacker 25-year-old Steven Alston, of Northeast, and 22-year-old Dewalden Connors were sent to the Department of Corrections in Upper Marlboro. They are awaiting extradition to Washington, D.C., Patterson said.