A carjacking suspect struck and injured four people attending the Rodeo Nights Holiday Lights celebration in Beverly Hills on the evening of Nov. 14. Among those hit was newly elected Beverly Hills Unified School District Board Member Russell Stuart, who was taken away from the area in a stretcher by Beverly Hills firefighters. The carjacked vehicle reached a stop after hitting the pedestrians, ramming into a building located at 9593 Wilshire Boulevard.
In a release sent that evening, the Beverly Hills Police Department said that at 7:06 p.m. they received a call reporting a carjacking using force of a black BMW X3 on the 400 block of North Bedford Drive. They later received a second call of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian traffic incident. When they arrived on Wilshire Boulevard and Camden Drive for their investigation, they determined it was the stolen vehicle and that the driver had fled the scene on foot and had left behind multiple injured victims. Officers assigned to the nearby event detained the suspect on the 200 block of North Beverly Drive.
