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Lightford says husband fired at carjackers

Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford revealed Thursday that her husband fired shots at carjackers after a Mercedes SUV they were in was stolen at gunpoint in the Western suburbs.

Lightford and her husband, Eric McKennie, were in the Mercedes dropping off a friend Tuesday night in Broadview when three masked men in a Dodge Durango boxed in the SUV, police said.

"I begged them not to shoot my husband, not to shoot me," Lightford told reporters Thursday morning at a Christmas present giveaway for children in Proviso Township. "They took everything off me that I had of value."

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