Moment armed Argentinian carjackers allow terrified surgeon to rescue his one-year-old son from the back of his car during carjacking
- A surgeon and his one-year-old son were carjacked outside his in-laws’ home on Tuesday in Argentina
- The doctor, identified as Cristian, told Telenueve Central that he was dropping off his child at the home of his wife’s parents when he was held at gunpoint
- Video shows Cristian pulling out his son’s belongings from his BMW’s trunk and walking towards the house when armed men jumped out of a van
- The doctor ran but was walked back to the vehicle and removed the boy from a car booster seat
- The carjackers stole his cellphone, but were unable to take the car because they were unable to turn it on
This is the shocking moment carjackers put a gun to the head of a surgeon, sending him fleeing for his life, before he was allowed to rescue his infant son.
The doctor had just arrived at the home of his wife’s parents in the Buenos Aires city of Villa Luzuriaga on Tuesday morning and was removing his one-year-old boy’s belongings from the trunk when the assailants jumped out of a van.
Surveillance footage shows one of the suspects pointing a gun at the physician, identified as Cristian, who took off running, leaving his son behind in his BMW.
The doctor holds on to his son after he was able to remove him from a car booster seat
A surgeon (left) carries his son while two of the three carjackers stand next to his BMW in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday
Yelling his son was in the car, Cristian was collared by the gunmen and forced to walk back to the vehicle, but managed to bargain with them so that he could remove the toddler from a car booster seat.
‘The only thing I thought was for them to take everything, and that’s what I asked them, please let me get my son out of the car, he’s a baby,’ Cristian told Telenueve Central.
Upon hearing the commotion outside his home, Cristian’s father-in-law opened the door, but was met by one of three gun-toting carjackers, who instructed him to step back inside.
Cristian rushed his son to his in-laws’ residence and watched through a window how the suspects failed to start the vehicle. They went back into their van and sped off with his cellphone.
‘I thank heaven that (my son) was asleep in the seat, and just as I got him out of the car, he remained asleep in my arms,” he said.
No arrests had been reported as of Wednesday afternoon.
The doctor, identified as Cristian by Telenueve Central, said that he was able to negotiate with the armed carjackers so that could take his one-year-old son out of his BMW