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Gunman Sought in Carjacking Outside Store

From Times Staff Reports

Ventura police were searching Sunday for a gunman who carjacked a grocery store employee as he was leaving work but later released him unharmed.

The employee was walking to his car in a Vons parking lot in the 2400 block of Harbor Boulevard shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday. He was approached by a man carrying a chrome handgun, who ordered the victim into his car and drove off.

The gunman ordered the employee out of the car near the intersection of Spinnaker Drive and Harbor Boulevard.

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The carjacker was last seen in the victim’s blue Chevy El Camino, California license number 3E14997, heading east on Olivas Park Drive, officials said.

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