Pair threw Garfield woman to street in carjacking, police say
A teenager remained held in jail without bail and his suspected accomplice was awaiting arraignment Tuesday in connection with a 3 a.m. carjacking in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood.
The victim was checking email in a car in front of her Broad Street home when Daniel Cain, 18, swung open her car door, Pittsburgh police said in a criminal complaint.
Within moments, she said the teen grabbed her right arm and violently threw her to the ground, the complaint said. A second man, later identified as Deron Cain-Devonport, 17, jumped into the car and the pair drove away.
As they fled, the car ran over the woman’s right wrist and hand, the complaint said.
The two men, whose home addresses were not listed in court documents, didn’t make it very far. Two officers in a marked police vehicle spotted the pair in the stolen car near Penn Avenue, the complaint said.
Police chased them for a mile or two onto East Liberty Boulevard, which forms a boundary between the East Liberty and Larimer neighborhoods, the complaint said. Cain then bailed and fled on foot.
He made it about two blocks, to East Liberty’s Station Street, before cops apprehended him. Police said they also recovered a firearm.
Cain-Devonport also fled on foot. Police said they found him hiding in a bush on Station Street.
The 911 call reporting the Broad Street victim screaming in the street came in at 3:05 a.m. Tuesday, the complaint said. The driver was in custody within 12 minutes.
Nobody at the victim’s home answered the door when a TribLive reporter visited the home Tuesday afternoon.
Pittsburgh police charged both teens with aggravated assault, robbery, robbery of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to rob a motor vehicle, and fleeing from police. Cain also was charged with receiving stolen property and a firearms count.
Cain-Devonport was arraigned Tuesday morning and is being held without bail in Allegheny County Jail, court records show. He was deemed a threat to the victim and the community.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 26. The name of his attorney wasn’t listed in court records.
Cain was taken to jail Tuesday, police said. He was not arraigned as of 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Justin Vellucci is a TribLive reporter covering crime and public safety in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A longtime freelance journalist and former reporter for the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Trib from 2006 to 2009 and returned in 2022. He can be reached at jvellucci@triblive.com.
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