Bay Vista Teacher Carjacked at Gunpoint

A 37-year-old Bay Vista Elementary School teacher is shaken, but otherwise OK following an armed carjacking in the school’s parking lot.

St. Petersburg Police say the incident happened around 7 a.m. Tuesday at the 5900 Dr. Martin Luther King St. S. school. The woman was getting out of her 2009 Mitsubishi Outlander when she was approached by a man with a gun. That man, police said, demanded her keys and purse.

The teacher handed the items over and fled toward the school as the carjacker took off in the Highlander.

While the vehicle was recovered later, the suspect remains on the loose.

The only description of the attacker is that he was a black male last seen wearing a gray hoodie.

As for the teacher, she’s shaken, police say, but was not injured during the attack.

Photo of the recovered vehicle courtesy of the St. Petersburg Police Department