Elizabeth Allen was sitting in her car in the Trader Joe’s parking lot in Kansas City Friday night writing out cards — including one for her mother’s birthday — when she said two teenage girls knocked on her window asking for help.

“I felt for them because they were so young,” she said. “They were definitely still in high school, and so I felt for them, like if I was out with my friends I want somebody to help me.”

But what started as an act of kindness allegedly ended in a brutal yet unsuccessful carjacking in the Ward Parkway Center, located at 8600 Ward Parkway . Police were called there around 9 p.m. on reports of a robbery where a woman was assaulted by multiple people who had fled on foot, according to Capt. Jake Becchina, spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department.

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