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Car wash manager, employee stop attempted carjacking with toddler inside
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Xtreme Clean Auto Spa employee Melvin Hall, right, and manager Landrell Payne recall the attempted hijacking of a car with a child in the backseat during their shift last Friday. The two detained the man until police arrived. Authorities said they found a revolver and a quantity of methamphetamine on his person.
Landrell Payne said “everything started from a scream.” Payne, the manager at Xtreme Clean Auto Spa on Browns Bridge Road, and employee Melvin Hall looked around noon Friday at the Gainesville business to intervene. Eric Timothy Davidson, 27, of Gainesville, is accused of attempting to hijack a woman’s car while her toddler was in the backseat, according to police.