Woman stabbed, carjacked after waking up to find person in passenger's seat: MPD

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Credit: Metropolitan Police Department.

WASHINGTON - Police are searching for suspects wanted for a stabbing and carjacking in Southeast Washington, D.C., last month.

What we know:

The attack happened shortly before 2 a.m. on April 4, in the 2100 block of Savannah Terrace Southeast, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. 

Officers were called to the scene that morning after reports of a stabbing. According to a police report, the woman told officers that she fell asleep in her car outside her apartment. When she woke up, she said there was a man she didn't know sitting in the passenger's seat. 

That man then stabbed her and took her car, according to the report. Police found the car a few miles away soon after, abandoned on 18th Street, Southeast, after it had crashed into a parked car.

What you can do:

MPD released images of the two suspects wanted in connection with the attack and carjacking. Officials asked anyone with information about the case to contact them at 202-727-9099.