LOUISVILLE, Ky. — According to MetroSafe, a one-year-old boy is safe after a car was stolen in Pleasure Ridge Park while the baby was sleeping inside.
The car was reported stolen just after 6:30 a.m. Friday at a Circle K after his mother ran into the store to buy ice. No more than 20 minutes later, MetroSafe confirmed that the car had been found with the baby safe inside.
The car wrecked into two other cars right down the street in the 7500 block of Feyhurst Rd. before the suspect fled on foot.
WHAS11's Brooke Hasch was on the scene and saw police apprehend the man suspected of stealing the car. She also spoke with an employee and the mother of the child.
Akiah Burns, who works at the Circle K, saw the suspected man come in before the mother to buy cigars.
"[She] came in to purchase a bag of ice, came back out to get her ice and ran back in and said, 'my car is gone,'" Burns said.
Burns said the man buying cigars is a regular at the store and stands outside the store.
"Not even 10 minutes later, the police found him inside the car up the street with him there," said Burns. "And the baby is safe. Thank God."
It is unclear at this time who the alleged suspect is and if was charged.
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