Millbrae Man Found Guilty of Carjacking and Assault

Paul Patrick Kirwan, 43, could face up to 13 years in prison after a jury yesterday found him guilty of carjacking and using the car as a deadly weapon by ramming his way out of a parking garage while intoxicated.

On March 31, Kirwan, who had been released on parole just two weeks prior, approached a woman in a parking garage at 101 S. San Mateo Dr. in San Mateo, and told her to give him her car. She jumped out of the vehicle, and ran in the garage. Kirwan chased her down, and when she fell to the ground, he took her keys and sped away in the vehicle through the garage, according to court documents.

He tried to exit the garage via a one way entrance by ramming another person’s car several times, injuring the driver. He then crashed through a security gate, and fled on foot shortly thereafter as the car was too damaged to continue driving it.

Police arrested him about a block away from the garage, and found him to be intoxicated and carrying a bindle of cocaine in his pocket. 

On Tuesday, he was found guilty of felony carjacking, assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run and drunk driving, but was found not guilty of cocaine possession.

Kirwan remains in custody on $250,000 bail. The case is set for Nov. 3 to impose a prison sentence.