In Chicago last year, more than 1,400 people were carjacked.
Edward Padilla’s car was stolen at gunpoint, and the experience put his life on hold.
Padilla said— “The Guy told me not to turn around and give him the keys. I felt a gun behind my back and a guy telling me to get out of the car.”
Jermaine Jordan says he’s been carjacked three times. He owns a car dealership, a car wash and he operates a restaurant that feeds the hungry. Donations make it all possible.
Jordan said — “You know me being a victim of being carjacked, my heart went out to them.”
The trauma of Jordan’s carjacking’s never left him, so he decided charity might be the best medicine. He said — “It just floods your heart to be able to help someone else and it feels good.”
So far, he’s given away 15 cars to other carjacking victims, all of them complete strangers. The cars are paid for with a combination of his own money and funds he raises on social media.
Padilla drove off with a Chevy. He said – “Tires are brand new, brakes, everything.”
He calls Jordan an angel.
Jordan says he just felt compelled to give away cars to the carjacked victims, simply because he wanted to help.
The new car did more than get the father of four back on the road: It also forged a friendship through the bond of shared trauma.