Park dispatch received several reports of an accident near Twin Overlooks on Desert View Drive on the South Rim around 3:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon. Witnesses stopped to offer assistance to the two men who were in the car, but both refused and left on foot, carrying large backpacks. Rangers responded and began an investigation. Around 7:15 p.m. that evening, a man called dispatch from a market within Grand Canyon Village and reported that the car he and his passenger had been driving in – a 2008 Dodge Caliber four-door hatchback – had been carjacked at gunpoint near Lipan Point on Desert View Drive. He said that two men had taken it and headed west toward the village. The men matched descriptions of the two who’d left the scene of the accident. The two men have been identified as Travis “T-Bo” Twiggs, 36, and Willard Twiggs, 38. Travis Twiggs is 5’8” tall, weighs about 200 pounds, has brown hair, blue eyes and facial hair, and has tattoos on his arms and legs. Willard Twiggs is 6’2” tall, weighs about 180 pounds, has shoulder-length blonde hair, blue eyes and facial hair, and also has tattoos on his arms and legs. The two men are considered armed and dangerous. Protection rangers and officers from the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office are searching all areas within and adjacent to Grand Canyon Village. Patrols are also being increased in both the park and the Tusayan area. Anyone with information regarding the suspects or stolen vehicle should call Grand Canyon’s emergency dispatch center at 928-638-7805.
