03/28/2014
A young man who carjacked a woman's car at gunpoint Thursday apparently didn't know how to drive a manual transmission.
The carjacker sat in the vehicle near 50th and Charles Streets for several minutes after taking a Dodge Caliber from a woman who lives nearby.
The carjacker didn't run away until police arrived at the scene.
After a brief foot chase, the 17-year-old was caught near 51st Street and Happy Hollow Boulevard. Police later identified him as Mganga Mganga. He was booked on suspicion of robbery.
The carjacking was reported about 7 a.m. Melissa Peters, 48, was walking to her car after shutting her garage door. She was going to take her 13-year-old son, Robert, to the bus stop and then head to work.
The young man came up and pointed a gun at her.
“He didn't say anything,” Peters said afterward. Peters, did, though: “'Oh, my God, he's got a gun!'”
“My first priority is, of course, my kid,” she said.
She went around to the car's passenger side where her son was sitting. “I opened the door. He got out. We started running. I was hollering up a storm.”
Peters said she had seen the young man about the same time Wednesday morning, in the alley across from their house.
“He was not facing me. He never looked my way.
“When I was pulling out of the garage (Wednesday), I looked his way. I noticed he was gone.”
She called her husband, Theo, to alert him to the young man in the alley.
Thursday morning, Peters said, she looked in the alley to make sure no one was there. She didn't see anyone until the teen approached her
Beth Meiches, a neighbor, said she heard Peters' screams and called police.
The young man “must have put it in neutral,” Meiches said. The car, she said, “rolled up into their side yard because he could not figure how to drive a stick.”
“The lights were going off and on” in the Dodge, she said. “He was trying to start it. He didn't know how.”
Meiches said she watched as he tried unsuccessfully to get the car into gear.
“He just stayed in that car forever,” Meiches said. “I was on the phone with the dispatcher.”
Police established a perimeter in the area with four to five cruisers while an officer pursued him on foot. A “help an officer'' call was put out during the foot chase but was quickly canceled.
At one point during the pursuit, he tossed aside a handgun that officers retrieved.
“I just thank God I'm still alive,” Peters said. “Thank God that he didn't shoot. He could have shot us.”
Mganga has been charged with three counts of robbery and three counts of use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony in connection with incidents on Oct. 21, Nov. 7 and Jan. 13. A bail of $10,000 -- 10 percent of $100,000 -- was posted on his behalf on March 14. Wednesday, a judge denied a motion to transfer the cases against Mganga to juvenile court.
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A young man who carjacked a woman's car at gunpoint Thursday apparently didn't know how to drive a manual transmission.
The carjacker sat in the vehicle near 50th and Charles Streets for several minutes after taking a Dodge Caliber from a woman who lives nearby.
The carjacker didn't run away until police arrived at the scene.
After a brief foot chase, the 17-year-old was caught near 51st Street and Happy Hollow Boulevard. Police later identified him as Mganga Mganga. He was booked on suspicion of robbery.
The carjacking was reported about 7 a.m. Melissa Peters, 48, was walking to her car after shutting her garage door. She was going to take her 13-year-old son, Robert, to the bus stop and then head to work.
The young man came up and pointed a gun at her.
“He didn't say anything,” Peters said afterward. Peters, did, though: “'Oh, my God, he's got a gun!'”
“My first priority is, of course, my kid,” she said.
She went around to the car's passenger side where her son was sitting. “I opened the door. He got out. We started running. I was hollering up a storm.”
Peters said she had seen the young man about the same time Wednesday morning, in the alley across from their house.
“He was not facing me. He never looked my way.
“When I was pulling out of the garage (Wednesday), I looked his way. I noticed he was gone.”
She called her husband, Theo, to alert him to the young man in the alley.
Thursday morning, Peters said, she looked in the alley to make sure no one was there. She didn't see anyone until the teen approached her
Beth Meiches, a neighbor, said she heard Peters' screams and called police.
The young man “must have put it in neutral,” Meiches said. The car, she said, “rolled up into their side yard because he could not figure how to drive a stick.”
“The lights were going off and on” in the Dodge, she said. “He was trying to start it. He didn't know how.”
Meiches said she watched as he tried unsuccessfully to get the car into gear.
“He just stayed in that car forever,” Meiches said. “I was on the phone with the dispatcher.”
Police established a perimeter in the area with four to five cruisers while an officer pursued him on foot. A “help an officer'' call was put out during the foot chase but was quickly canceled.
At one point during the pursuit, he tossed aside a handgun that officers retrieved.
“I just thank God I'm still alive,” Peters said. “Thank God that he didn't shoot. He could have shot us.”
Mganga has been charged with three counts of robbery and three counts of use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony in connection with incidents on Oct. 21, Nov. 7 and Jan. 13. A bail of $10,000 -- 10 percent of $100,000 -- was posted on his behalf on March 14. Wednesday, a judge denied a motion to transfer the cases against Mganga to juvenile court.
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