9-Year-Old Among Carjackers Caught In Baltimore

People in Baltimore are shocked to learn that among five youths arrested in a stolen car they allegedly carjacked was a 9-year-old kid. Sadly, we’re not quite so surprised since we’ve covered children as young as 8 carjacking drivers at gunpoint. It’s a fairly common occurrence in many big American cities now, but it should become a rarity again.

Man heroically tries saving 80-year-old woman from a fatal carjacking.

Cops caught the five suspects in a stolen car on the same street where a violent armed carjacking, also pulled off by kids, happened just days before. The suspects in the stolen vehicle were 21, 19, 16, 15, and 9. According to local news station WBFF, only the 9-year-old was released to his parents.

Those suspects weren’t just sitting in a stolen car. According to Baltimore Police, the owner was carjacked while stopped at an intersection. The suspects approached her car, smashed the window with some sort of metal tool, then dragged her out before taking off with her ride.

Residents of that neighborhood interviewed by WBFF indicated that sort of thing happens fairly often, and they’re fed up with the violence. One of them was even injured in

After the carjacking, the suspects allegedly assaulted someone else and attempted an unarmed robbery.

WBFF said people in the neighborhood complain it’s the same group of kids who are breaking into cars to steal stuff, carjacking people, robbing victims, and committing other crimes. One man went so far as to say the kids should be locked up permanently.

At this point nobody reasonable could claim there isn’t a problem when kids are carjacking people, sometimes at gunpoint. The problem is not everyone agrees about what to do with the children when they’re caught. Do you keep them incarcerated for a long time? Prosecute the parents? Put them in therapy? What’s the solution to kids committing adult crimes?

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