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A teenage boy was arrested by San Jose police at his home, one day after news broke that a 72-year-old man had been carjacked and beaten up in his driveway, as he was returning from a grocery run. The teen totaled the car only 10 minutes after he stole it.
Hector Estrada was returning home with grocery bags when he was approached by 2 young men in his driveway, NBC Bay Area reports. One of them demanded that he hand over the keys to his Nissan Sentra, which Estrada refused to do. The teen then got into the driver seat and, prying the keys from Estrada’s hands, tried to leave.
The old man tried to pull the thief out from the car, so the thief retaliated by delivering at least a couple of punches to his face, after flashing a gun at him. The incident was captured on Estrada’s security camera, which he had installed precisely because there had been several carjackings in the area. He told the teen that he was on camera, hoping this would discourage him from taking the car.
It didn’t. “I don’t care,” the teen told Estrada before getting inside the Nissan and speeding off. He wouldn’t get very far, though: about 10 minutes later, he ran a red light and crashed into a Dodge Challenger, totaling the stolen vehicle.
The suspect then got out of the car and ran on foot, threatening a witness who had tried to stop him with his gun. Police caught arrested him the next day, thanks to the footage Estrada had recorded. Estrada says he’d like the teen to be trialed like an adult, just so he could go and sit in at his trial, in the hope of understanding what would prompt him to lead such a life of crime.
The suspect was booked into Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall on charges of carjacking, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse.
The old man tried to pull the thief out from the car, so the thief retaliated by delivering at least a couple of punches to his face, after flashing a gun at him. The incident was captured on Estrada’s security camera, which he had installed precisely because there had been several carjackings in the area. He told the teen that he was on camera, hoping this would discourage him from taking the car.
It didn’t. “I don’t care,” the teen told Estrada before getting inside the Nissan and speeding off. He wouldn’t get very far, though: about 10 minutes later, he ran a red light and crashed into a Dodge Challenger, totaling the stolen vehicle.
The suspect then got out of the car and ran on foot, threatening a witness who had tried to stop him with his gun. Police caught arrested him the next day, thanks to the footage Estrada had recorded. Estrada says he’d like the teen to be trialed like an adult, just so he could go and sit in at his trial, in the hope of understanding what would prompt him to lead such a life of crime.
The suspect was booked into Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall on charges of carjacking, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse.
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