A man from Chicago was given a ten-year prison sentence for carjacking a woman at gunpoint while wearing two electronic tracking devices.
According to the prosecution, on September 16, 2023, at around two in the morning, 32-year-old Keyruni Buford and another man ambushed a 47-year-old woman in the 7600 block of South Champlain Avenue. The two got inside the woman’s 2021 Nissan Sentra while she was seated inside and used their guns to coerce her out of the driver’s seat.
Prosecutors claim that after detectives followed the stolen vehicle to a neighboring McDonald’s, surveillance footage showed Buford exiting the passenger seat.
Because Buford was already wearing GPS tags and electronic monitoring from a previous domestic battery case, Chicago police had a distinct advantage in the investigation. Both ankle monitors, according to the prosecution, put him at the scene of the carjacking and correlated his movements with those of the stolen Nissan.
The location of the car and Buford’s phone data were also mentioned in the CPD arrest report. Investigators claimed to have discovered a picture of the stolen car’s registration details stored on the device.
Buford boasted about the incident in a text message that was also on the phone. Buford allegedly said, “Me, LOL,” in response to the other person’s question about who stole the car.
In front of Judge Kenneth Wadas on Friday, Buford entered a guilty plea to vehicular hijacking. Although Buford will be eligible for release after serving half of the term for good conduct, the judge gave him a ten-year sentence. The 687 days of credit he accrued while incarcerated in the Cook County Jail will further shorten his sentence.
Buford has already been featured in CWBC Chicago’s reporting.
He was one of three persons charged with assaulting and robbing a 64-year-old Boytown resident in October 2016. Two co-defendants were found in possession of the victim’s wallet and phone, while Buford was found in possession of the victim’s cash and credit cards, according to the police. In 2018, Judge Timothy Chambers gave him a six-year prison term.
Buford was already on parole at the time of the crime because he had mugged another resident in Boystown in 2013.
