Sentence examples for before the carjacking from inspiring English sources

The bulletins that went out over the wires gave both Travis and Will a "violent criminal history," although before the carjacking neither had any such thing.

'I did it and I just killed a policeman in Cambridge.'" Earlier on Thursday, the jury viewed autopsy photos of Sean Collier, a university police officer whom prosecutors contend the brothers shot dead shortly before the carjacking, in an unsuccessful effort to steal his gun.

Just before the carjacking on Friday, police believe Ramirez had been in another car with Gasparyan.

They are believed to have crashed their car at the canyon's edge and walked away from the scene, witnesses said, hours before the carjacking at gunpoint.

The two men apparently split up after the killing, and when the carjacking occurred, before midnight, a lone man approached a parked Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle and tapped on the passenger-side window, officials said.

The elder, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a confrontation with authorities, but not before participating in the fatal shooting of an M.I.T. police officer, the carjacking of an S.U.V. and the shooting of a transit police officer, who was critically injured.

Deputies at the first scene were still working to identify Alexander and connect him to the carjacking, because they had briefly lost sight of him before the Slater Street resident flagged them down, Katz said.

He declined comment about the carjacking.

"The burglary is too much like the carjacking," she said.

Ms. Curran declined to comment on the carjacking case.

The woman in the carjacking attempt was taken to a hospital.