Police are still searching for suspects after a pregnant mom was run over in her driveway trying to stop carjackers from taking her vehicle with her 2-year-old child still inside in Libertyville Thursday, police said.
from taking her vehicle with her 2-year-old child still inside in Libertyville Thursday, police said.
The 34-year-old woman, who authorities say is six months pregnant, had just pulled into her driveway around 3:30 p.m. in the 16000 block of Route 137 in unincorporated Libertyville Thursday. She took one of her children into the home and was returning outside to bring her 2-year-old son when a white BMW pulled behind her vehicle, the Lake County Sheriff's office said.
A man wearing a light green facemask then exited the BMW and struggled to get inside the woman's Volkswagen before battering her and kicking her to the ground, police said. The man then stole the car with the 2-year-old inside, running the woman over while fleeing and causing severe wounds to her extremities, authorities said. She managed to call 911 to report the carjacking, the sheriff's office reported.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.Not long after the theft, an employee at a business in Waukegan called 911 to report that two vehicles had pulled into a parking lot and one of the drivers abandoned a young child before fleeing.
The 911 caller took the child from the parking lot until Waukegan authorities responded to the scene and confirmed it was the 2-year-old boy taken in the carjacking.
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