Ohio mother dies after trying to stop carjacking with 6-year-old son inside
Police in Ohio are looking for two male suspects in connection with the death of a 29-year-old woman who was thrown from her vehicle as she tried to stop it from being stolen with her sleeping 6-year-old son inside.
Police in Ohio are looking for two male suspects in connection with the death of a 29-year-old woman who was thrown from her vehicle as she tried to stop it from being stolen with her sleeping 6-year-old son inside.
Columbus police said they were called to an apartment complex around 1:30 a.m. on a report of a pedestrian that had been struck by a vehicle when they found Alexa Stakely lying in the roadway. She had sustained traumatic injuries and was pronounced dead at a hospital a few hours later.
Alexa Stakely.Courtesy Columbus Police Stakely, a single mother who worked two jobs, had just finished her shift as a waitress and was picking her son up from his babysitter’s home, police said.
She carried her sleeping son to her Honda SUV that was parked outside the babysitter’s home and left it running while she met the babysitter in the doorway to get one of the boy’s belongings.
“As she returned to her SUV, it began to back out into the roadway,” police said in a news release.
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