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Teen hijacks car with 4-year-old inside
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A Mission teenager is behind bars tonight, police accuse of him of hijacking a car with a four-year-old toddler still inside, then leading officers on a chase. It started Sunday night, on the Walgreens on the corner of Shary Road and Griffin Parkway in Mission. "The mother got here to the Walgreens, there's a Red Box there," Mission Police Cpl. Manuel Casas explained. "She was going to deposit some movies she had rented out." Cpl. Casas said the woman left her car door open and the engine running. She was away for just a few minutes, but he said that is all it took. "She heard the door slam so she turned around to see what it was and she noticed that there was a man inside her car," he added. The man, police said, turned out to be a 13-year-old boy who immediately took off, with the four-year-old child restrained in the back seat. Cpl. Casas said the mother instinctively dove for car in an attempt to stop the teen. "She jumped on top of the hood when she saw that the car began to reverse," he explained. "She even grabbed on to one of the windshield wipers and that's why it's kind of bent out of shape." The teen sped off sending the woman flying into the street, but police said she wasn't seriously hurt. Still, her child was in the speeding car that headed West on Griffin Parkway, eventually getting on the expressway, and stopping abruptly in Peitas. "The suspect decided that he wanted to turn around and head back east," Cpl. Casas said. "When he did that, he lost control ...
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