Evanston Teen Charged With Park Ridge Carjacking of Sleeping Child

An 18-year-old was charged Saturday with carjacking a car from a Park Ridge driveway Thursday with a 5-year-old boy sleeping inside while the boy’s pregnant mother was unloaded groceries, according to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times.

The car was soon found with the boy, unharmed, inside in Skokie.

Deangelo Fountain, of Evanston, is charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated kidnapping and possession of a stolen vehicle, according to an ABC7 report. Police were able to track Fountain down with the help of an account from the vehicle’s owner and surveillance video from a storage facility where they say Fountain had stopped to ask for a garbage bag because it was raining.

When he stole the Audi with the sleeping boy inside, the boy’s mother, who is seven weeks pregnant, jumped on the hood screaming and then was able to open the driver’s side door, according to the Sun-Times story. But he pushed her and drove off, the article says.

Fountain is a student at Metro Prep High School in Arlington Heights, which serves special-needs students, according to ABC7.

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