MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 17-year-old was arrested after police said he is responsible for two carjacking incidents over the weekend.
Police responded to a carjacking call on March 5 on the 5200 block of Flowering Peach. The victim told police he parked his car when three suspects approached him demanding the car keys.
The victim was getting his two-year-old daughter out of the back seat of the car when one of the suspects tried to hit him with a gun but struck the two-year-old in the face instead, according to police. The suspects fled in the victim’s vehicle, taking his ID and credit cards.
Officers found the victim’s vehicle through an on-board GPS and arrested the 17-year-old teen trying to get inside of the car on Ashridge Place in Hickory Hill. MPD said they also found a rifle with the teen.
WREG talked to the parent of the two-year-old who says she is fine without a bruise.
MPD responded to a second call on White Birch and Tulip Tree after Moises Hernandez said he was getting out of his vehicle when four suspects with guns demanded his car. Officers said the suspects fled in Hernandez’s vehicle, but it has since been recovered.
Mariela Marcos speaks very little English, but knows enough to describe the terrifying ordeal her boyfriend endured Saturday morning.
“‘Go over there and give me your money and phone and everything,'” she said describing what one of the suspects told her boyfriend.
Marcos said Hernandez ran to the house yelling to everyone about what just happened.
“He come and tell me, ‘Hey let’s go because my car is gone and the people,'” she said. “The police is coming in two or three minutes and check what happened and everything.”
Hernandez told police he heard several shots fired. One shot broke part of a window at the house, and police said they found several shell casings in the street, but no one was hurt.
In addition to carjacking charges, the teen is also being charged with employment of a firearm with intent to commit a felony, theft of property, aggravated assault, evading arrest and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Police did not say if any of the other suspects had been apprehended.