Great story on the local NBC affilliate tonight: “2-Year-Old Found After Temple Hills Carjacking.” Well, it’s not great that a 2-year-old got carried away in a carjacking, but it is great that a) the boy is safe and sound, and b) that one of DC’s finest played a big role in the successful conclusion.
The child went missing when his aunt’s car was stolen at a gas station. Police said the woman was pumping gas at a station at St. Barnabas and Wheeler roads in Temple Hills when a group of men forced the woman away, jumped into the car and drove away. The boy was still inside the car.
A D.C. Air National Guard sergeant noticed the carjacked vehicle driving with the gas pump still attached, called 911 and followed the vehicle, a green Pontiac Grand Prix, to the 1900 block of Colebrook Road in Hillcrest Heights, where the carjackers left the vehicle.
The actual report on the news had some more detail, to wit, that when the thugs bailed out, the Guardsman ran up and got the boy, and removed him to safety.
Good on him, I say! Quick thinking and decisive action, not to mention a good measure of intestinal fortitude.
air power! I *believe* that the DCANG has a few VMI boys flying their 16s. Leadership!
Go U.S. military