Exclusive: Flatbush woman says she was attacked, dragged out of vehicle during carjacking caught on camera 

Hallet says she was attacked and dragged from her friend’s car around 2:40 a.m. She says they were sitting in the car talking when two men suddenly approached.

Kelly Kennedy

Jul 24, 2025, 10:14 PM

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A Flatbush woman says she and her friend were carjacked by two men - and it was caught on camera.
Surveillance video captured the moment that Kate Hallet says her life was changed forever.
The attack lasted less than 30 seconds, but she says it felt like an eternity.
“I was like, 'Oh my God, I’m going to be killed,” Hallet said.
Hallet has lived in Flatbush for eight years and says she used to feel safe walking her neighborhood.
“Now I feel like unless I’m with somebody else, I don’t want to go out,” she said.
It happened on July 13, at the corner of Lewis Place and Coney Island Avenue.
Hallet says she was attacked and dragged from her friend’s car around 2:40 a.m.
She says they were sitting in the car talking when two men suddenly approached.
“The door opened and there was a teenager standing there and he said, ‘Give me your phone,’” Hallet said.
She refused to hand over her phone.
“I don’t know. It was stupid in the moment. It’s stuff — it can be replaced,” she said.
She says the men threatened to stab her.
“Before I knew it, I was on the ground and they had reversed the car and the door hit me,” she recalled.
On Monday, police spotted a suspect inside the stolen car near Madison Street in Manhattan. Officers said they found a knife in the glovebox and that the stolen car was damaged. Darnell Paul, 18, was arrested but released hours later.
“I am shocked. I’m in disbelief,” Hallet said.
Paul was charged with multiple felonies, but a judge granted supervised release and ordered a psychiatric evaluation.
Prosecutors say in June, the Brooklyn man was arrested for punching a driver in an attempted carjacking. The next day, he was arrested again for punching another man and stealing his car.
Paul is due back in court on Sept. 9.