Deputies: Barefoot carjacker arrested on entrance ramp

BRANDON -- A barefoot carjacking suspect was arrested while walking on an exit ramp this morning, about 15 minutes after striking his victim with a wooden fence picket in her driveway, Hillsborough sheriff's deputies said.

Deputies said Jeffrey Doorvale was carrying the wooden slat just before 5 a.m. when he approached Sharon Mullins, who was in a silver 2000 Pontiac Grand Am parked in her driveway on the 100 block of Mahogany Drive.

Doorvale, 19, ordered Mullins, 55, out of her car then beat her with the piece of wood, and when Mullins fought back, deputies said Doorvale jumped in the driver's seat and slid the car into reverse. The open driver's side door knocked Mullins to the ground.

Hillsborough sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said Mullins was dragged briefly and that a tire may have rolled over her foot as Doorvale left the driveway. She was taken to Brandon Regional Hospital.

About 15 minutes later, deputies and Florida Highway Patrol troopers responded to an entrance ramp on U.S. 301 near Interstate 75, Callaway said. They found a Grand Am crashed into the tree line. They also found Doorvale, walking barefoot on the ramp.

"We believe he was inebriated or under the influence of drugs," Callaway said. "He claimed he was kidnapped into the vehicle and that's why he ended up there."

Along with the carjacking and aggravated battery with a vehicle charges, Doorvale was charged with violating probation stemming from previous felony cocaine possession and delivery charges.

-- Casey Cora, Times staff writer

Booking photo courtesy Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office