Richmond County authorities recovered a local mother’s newborn baby Wednesday night after a carjacker took off with her vehicle and the 2-week old child inside.
The auto theft took place around 9 p.m. Wednesday on the 2100 block of A Street, sheriff’s Sgt. Caleb Lee said. The mother told officers that she was unloading her vehicle when the suspect got in and drove off. The victim’s two-week old child was still in the vehicle.
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“Deputies immediately began searching for the vehicle and child locating both approximately 15 minutes later near Lake Olmstead,” Sgt. Lee said.
The subject abandoned the vehicle and the child was turned back over to the mother uninjured. The hunt for the suspect continued into the evening with no description available.
