Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was carjacked in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood on Monday evening, according to three people familiar with the situation.
The armed assault of Cuellar, first reported by POLITICO, came amid concerns about a spike in carjackings in the nation’s capital — and it's not the first time this year that a sitting lawmaker has personally encountered the city's rise in crime. Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was
attacked in her apartment building on Capitol Hill in February.