When a carjacker made off with Melanie and Aaron Richmond's car with their baby girl Samantha inside, they fought hard to protect their daughter.
It’s often said that parents can take on superhuman powers when their child’s life is in danger. Melanie and Aaron Richmond, a young couple from Colorado, put that theory to the test last week when a carjacker tried to make off with their Pontiac Grand Am—with their six-month-old daughter, Samantha, strapped inside.
The tired couple was on the final leg of a move from Colorado to Missouri, and had stopped at a gas station to refuel. When they got out of the car to talk to their relatives, who were driving a moving van, they decided to leave the car running to keep their daughter warm. They were only a few feet from the car when a man passing by decided to make a run for it and jump behind the wheel.
As soon as he put the car in reverse, the Richmonds set out to chase him down. They couldn’t let him get away—their baby girl was in that car.
Melanie used her elbow to break the passenger-side window of the moving car, then clung to it as the carjacker drove. Aaron jumped into the car to confront the driver.
“As soon as that window shattered, my goal was to just get in there as fast as I could and get him out,” Aaron Richman told the TODAY Show. “I started kicking him on the right side of his face as hard as I could.”
The carjacker soon saw that he was no match for the young couple’s protective parenting instincts. He ran the car into a barricade just outside the gas station, and ran off. Luckily, Samantha was completely unharmed.
Watch the amazing incident captured on video.
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