BEECH GROVE, Ind. – Beech Grove police are once again investigating a case of an attempted carjacker who is not only too young to drive, but too young to be committing violent crimes.
For the second time in the past few months, a child is suspected of pointing a gun at a driver to demand their car.
The latest incident happened Tuesday night in the same spot as the first case.
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There seem to be a lot of similarities between what happened this week outside the Willow Glen Apartments, and what happened in mid-May in the 4300 block of Malden Lane – also part of that same apartment complex.
In both cases, a woman with her children was approached by a young man – around 13 or 14 years old – pulling out a gun and demanding her keys.
But Beech Grove police say despite the similarities, they don’t believe the cases involve the same boy, especially seeing as the suspect linked to the first carjacking is still in the custody of police.
As for this week’s attempt, police say the boy went up to a woman who lives in the complex, pulled out a gun, took her keys and climbed into her car.
But he noticed her 2-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son were in the back, police say.
The mother says when the teen told her to get the kids out of the car, and when she did, she started screaming, bringing neighbors out and scaring away the carjacker.
No one was hurt in the ordeal, but neighbors are concerned at the age of the boy involved. Like this longtime resident of the neighborhood.
“It’s to the point where you’re worried about walking out of your apartment, a couple hundred feet to your car,” Lilli Rines said. “You can’t take the trash out or anything at night because a little kid comes up, and you’re not expecting it, and they rob you for what you have on you.”
Police say they have very few leads, but stress what happened is not connected to the similar case back in May.
