Mother fights off armed carjackers with her bare hands in Florida
Surveillance footage captured the dramatic moment where a mother fended off two armed carjackers from stealing her vehicle which had her two young children inside.
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Your support makes all the difference.Dramatic surveillance footage has emerged showing a mother fighting off two armed carjackers using just her bare hands at a Florida service station.
The vehicle contained her one-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son.
The footage shows one suspect attempting to get into the driver’s seat which the mother notices quickly. She manages to pull back the carjacker; resulting in the pair to flee the service station.
ABC7 news reports that both suspects escaped in a getaway car which crashed after a brief police chase.
Three suspects have been arrested: Nicholas Rosado, 19, Rebecca Utria, 21, and an unidentified 17-year-old male.
The mother and her children were uninjured by the incident.
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