MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One of the latest Minneapolis car thefts presented a nightmare for a mom, watching as a stranger drove away with her 3-month-old baby still in the vehicle.
It happened at about 8:07 p.m. on Tuesday in the parking lot of a North Minneapolis day care. Security footage that the day care provided to WCCO shows a group of people walking on the street near the business about 20 minutes earlier. When the mother goes inside the day care, leaving her car running, one of the people who appeared to be part of that group walks towards the car by themselves. The thief enters the car and drives away with the vehicle exactly 59 seconds after the mother left; she runs outside as the car leaves, throwing what looks like a backpack and a child’s jacket to the ground as she screams.
New video WCCO obtained Friday suggests that the lone person who initially stole the car may have been unaware of the child. A neighbor’s security camera shows the individual getting out of the car in an alley about half a mile from the day care. When he regroups with the other four he was spotted walking with earlier in the evening, one of them exclaims, “There’s a baby,” when they go to get into the vehicle…