Dakota Valkyrie
March 9th, 2009, 08:02 PM
http://i40.tinypic.com/10igymp.jpgA 14-year-old boy is responsible for stealing an SUV this morning with three young children inside on Mabel Butler Road.
The teen hopped inside the black Ford Expedition and was surprised to find three kids, ages 2, 4 and 8 in the back seat.
"He told us to shut up and to be quiet and stuff," Kim Carter, 8, said of the terrifying experience.
Kim's aunt, Jacquelyn Watson, had run inside the home to get gas money from her mother, Ernestine Carter. She left the kids in the car with the keys in the ignition.
Meanwhile, Kim's mother, Janice Carter, stood at the door to the apartment and watched the SUV. She bent down to pick up a pacifier for her son Ryan and heard the tires squealing, Janice Carter said.
Officers and Orange County sheriff's deputies immediately began looking for the vehicle and the missing children.
Kim and her two younger cousins, 2-year-old Yasmin Watson and 4-year-old Samiah Watson, began crying and screaming.
As the boy gained control of the car, he hit the gas pedal and screeched away down the street. Samiah flew forward in her car seat and bumped her head on the seat, said Kim's mother, Janice Carter.
A few blocks away, the boy let the three girls out of the car. He rushed Kim while she worked to unbuckle Yasmin's car seat and help her cousins out of the SUV, she said.
The children were unharmed, but were forced from the car near the Ramada hotel near L.B. McLeod and John Young Parkway - a busy intersection that Kim recognized was too busy to try to cross.
By then, Kim had wiped her tears away and was determined to get back to her grandma's house on Mabel Butler. Kim said she grabbed each of her cousins by the hand and led them down the street, then flagged down a woman and explained what happened.
"I told her my auntie's car had been stolen," Kim said. The woman put the children in the car and drove the short distance to grandmother, Ernestine Carter's home.
"She's the hero," Ernestine Carter said. "She's truly blessed."http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-man-steals-car-kids-inside-030909,0,1774052.story
Update:
Orlando police identified the boy who stole the SUV this morning as 14-year-old Alonzo McRoy.
McRoy is charged with grand theft auto, three charges of kidnapping a child under the age of 13 and resisting arrest. The teen has two prior arrests for burglary, once to a house and once to a car.
Police are charging McRoy with kidnapping because they believe he saw the children in the car and decided to steal it anyway.Police released a seven and a half minute 911 call made this morning by Jacquelyn Watson after her SUV was stolen with her two young children and niece inside.
Watson was hysterical and had to be calmed by dispatchers several times.
"I can't stay calm, my kids are gone!" Watson said to the dispatcher.
After several minutes, Watson's mother, Ernestine Carter, took the phone from her daughter and explained that none of them saw who took the car.
"I don't know what bum took it, but you better find it," Carter told dispatchers. "Because if you don't, I'm gonna do something."Audio of the 911 call: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-mp3-911-carjacker-car-children-030909,0,1339348.mp3file
The teen hopped inside the black Ford Expedition and was surprised to find three kids, ages 2, 4 and 8 in the back seat.
"He told us to shut up and to be quiet and stuff," Kim Carter, 8, said of the terrifying experience.
Kim's aunt, Jacquelyn Watson, had run inside the home to get gas money from her mother, Ernestine Carter. She left the kids in the car with the keys in the ignition.
Meanwhile, Kim's mother, Janice Carter, stood at the door to the apartment and watched the SUV. She bent down to pick up a pacifier for her son Ryan and heard the tires squealing, Janice Carter said.
Officers and Orange County sheriff's deputies immediately began looking for the vehicle and the missing children.
Kim and her two younger cousins, 2-year-old Yasmin Watson and 4-year-old Samiah Watson, began crying and screaming.
As the boy gained control of the car, he hit the gas pedal and screeched away down the street. Samiah flew forward in her car seat and bumped her head on the seat, said Kim's mother, Janice Carter.
A few blocks away, the boy let the three girls out of the car. He rushed Kim while she worked to unbuckle Yasmin's car seat and help her cousins out of the SUV, she said.
The children were unharmed, but were forced from the car near the Ramada hotel near L.B. McLeod and John Young Parkway - a busy intersection that Kim recognized was too busy to try to cross.
By then, Kim had wiped her tears away and was determined to get back to her grandma's house on Mabel Butler. Kim said she grabbed each of her cousins by the hand and led them down the street, then flagged down a woman and explained what happened.
"I told her my auntie's car had been stolen," Kim said. The woman put the children in the car and drove the short distance to grandmother, Ernestine Carter's home.
"She's the hero," Ernestine Carter said. "She's truly blessed."http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-man-steals-car-kids-inside-030909,0,1774052.story
Update:
Orlando police identified the boy who stole the SUV this morning as 14-year-old Alonzo McRoy.
McRoy is charged with grand theft auto, three charges of kidnapping a child under the age of 13 and resisting arrest. The teen has two prior arrests for burglary, once to a house and once to a car.
Police are charging McRoy with kidnapping because they believe he saw the children in the car and decided to steal it anyway.Police released a seven and a half minute 911 call made this morning by Jacquelyn Watson after her SUV was stolen with her two young children and niece inside.
Watson was hysterical and had to be calmed by dispatchers several times.
"I can't stay calm, my kids are gone!" Watson said to the dispatcher.
After several minutes, Watson's mother, Ernestine Carter, took the phone from her daughter and explained that none of them saw who took the car.
"I don't know what bum took it, but you better find it," Carter told dispatchers. "Because if you don't, I'm gonna do something."Audio of the 911 call: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-mp3-911-carjacker-car-children-030909,0,1339348.mp3file