A man who is accused of stealing a car while two 10-year-old boys sat in the backseat is out of custody and is currently facing no charges, but his victims worry the suspect is a danger to his community and himself.
“It happened so fast that I had no time to think,” said Wendy Grace, recounting that moment on August 12, when she watched a man jump into her car and try to drive off, with her kids inside.
“All I thought is that I was going to lose my kids and that there was a strange person in the car, so I just reacted.”
The boys were able to escape the car before the man drove off. Minutes later and about 15 miles away, witnesses say the same man pulled up to Carolina’s Mexican restaurant in Peoria.
Employees said he was acting erratically inside, so one of them followed the suspect to the stolen car and got in to try and stop him.
After a struggle, a restaurant worker says she was able to stop his car. So, the man took off on foot. The man was arrested at a nearby business.
