LOS ANGELES—Two people who allegedly followed a woman home from a post office and then robbed her at gunpoint while she was taking her two young daughters out of their car seats in Hancock Park were behind bars on Friday, May 20.
Ashton Dwight Carter, 38, and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Teresa Whitaker, both of Los Angeles, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the brazen robbery, which occurred around 12:50 p.m. on May 12 in the 300 block of South Muirfield Road, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Ashton Dwight Carter (L) and his girlfriend Teresa Whitaker, both of Los Angeles, were arrested on May 17, 2022, in connection with the brazen robbery, which occurred in Hancock Park on May 12, 2022. (Courtesy of Los Angeles Police Department)
According to police, the woman had been at a post office, and the suspects followed her home in a black BMW 535i. Whitaker, the suspected driver, stopped the car in the street next to the victim and Carter allegedly got out and pointed a gun at the woman and her children, demanding her watch and threatening to kill all three if she refused to comply, police said….