30-Year Sentence For Man Who Carjacked Women At Gunpoint In Downers

DOWNERS GROVE, IL — A DuPage County judge recently handed down a 30-year sentence for a man who was convicted in connection with the 2019 carjacking of two women in Downers Grove.

Martavious Robinson, 21, was convicted of aggravated vehicular hijacking after a two-day jury trial in June 2023. Robinson, who was a juvenile at the time of the incident, had been tried as an adult.

On Nov. 30, 2019, police were called to a house on Prairie Avenue by two women, later identified as mother and daughter, who said they had been sitting in a car when they were approached by an armed man in a mask. The man, whom authorities identified as Robinson, told the women to get out of the vehicle, got in and drove off, a news release said.

In December 2019, Robinson, Emanuel Embry and Daysean Washington-Davis were arrested in connection with an armed carjacking in Warrenville. The trio was also linked to the armed carjacking of a pregnant woman in Downers Grove on the same day.

Washington-Davis was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2022 after pleading guilty to aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm. In May 2023, Embry was also given a 40-year prison sentence.

After Robinson's sentencing, DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a statement, “In late 2019, Mr. Robinson and two other men, Daysean Washington-Davis and Emanuel Embry, terrorized DuPage County residents during a short-lived crime spree, carjacking three vehicles at gunpoint in two-weeks’ time. Violent crimes such as these have an incredibly crippling effect on not just the immediate victims, but the entire community as well leaving entire neighborhoods fearful for their personal safety. The thirty-year sentence imposed today, and the forty-year sentences imposed on Mr. Robinson’s co-defendants, sends a loud and clear message to would-be offenders that violent crimes in DuPage County carry significant consequences."