They say real estate is all about location. While that may be true, committing a successful crime is more about choosing the right target than where you are. 

For example, it is a bad idea to attempt to carjack a person who is armed and prepared to defend themself. And that was the valuable lesson learned recently in Chicago by not one but two alleged assailants.

The 26-year-old rideshare driver who was targeted was also a concealed carry holder, and that decision may have saved his life.

Police reported the alleged carjacker, later identified as 20-year-old Darick Benson, and a juvenile female were struck by bullets in a failed attempt to rob the would-be victim.

Court documents assert the rideshare driver picked up Benson and the minor female just after midnight on Aug. 12. Both got in the backseat, and the drama shortly unfolded.

Benson, who police said was already on probation for another carjacking case late last year, reportedly produced a handgun and pointed it toward the driver. The driver, however, had other ideas. He slowed the SUV down enough to be able to jump out while it was still moving. He then produced his weapon and fired three rounds into the back of the vehicle, striking both suspects.

The wounded Benson, according to Assistant State’s Attorney John Kyle, attempted to drive the SUV away. 

However, the key fob was in the driver’s pocket and the vehicle was out of range.

The now frustrated and wounded alleged robbers then ran off, leaving behind both of their cellphones. Kyle reported in the confusion that the rideshare driver’s phone was taken by one of the suspects.

The female was located a block away suffering a graze wound to her right arm. The pilfered cellphone was nearby.

Benson was found at the entrance of a nearby apartment with a gunshot wound to the leg. He is being held without bail on a new aggravated vehicular hijacking charge and another for firing a shot that missed the rideshare driver in the exchange of gunfire.

At his bond hearing, Benson’s public defender argued there was a lack of evidence that tied him to the alleged crime. The judge, however, noted the gunshot wound and decided society would be better served with the defendant behind bars.