7-year-old twins attacked carjacker with rubber snake

A car thief was forced to pull over after a couple miles in the stolen vehicle because twin boys, age 7, who were in the car attacked him, police said.



“One of the boys was punching the man in the face; the other was hitting him with a rubber snake,” Sgt. Javier Salazar of the San Antonio Police Department said. The car was taken from in front of the home of Lucia Lozada on Thursday as the mother was standing just feet from the vehicle.

Her twin sons and a one-year-old were buckled into the car as the family readied to go to church. The father had gone back into the house to get the baby a bottle. “Lucia saw the man before he took the car,” said Herminia Segovia, the children’s grandmother. “She recognized him from around the neighbourhood and even waved to him. Before she could do anything he jumped into the car and drove away.”


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The distraught mother called police who rushed to the scene, but within 10 minutes her boys had got  the carjacker to pull over and drop the boys and their baby brother off a few miles away. “The boys told me that the man even shook their hands before dropping them off, and let them keep their tablet,” said Segovia. Although the thief is still at large, police are relatively certain that they will find him because he has frequented the neighbourhood in the past.