An 11-year-old boy was arrested this week in reference to a theft and carjacking from November, with the incident being caught on digital camera, in line with police. Talking to native media in Chicago after the arrest on Wednesday, one of many victims marveled on the youngster "skipping" alongside her garden and driveway to hitch the crime.

The video of the crime was taken by a neighbor's doorbell safety digital camera throughout the road in Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood. The video reveals a automobile pulling right into a driveway and two girls, a mom and her grownup daughter, beginning to take away what seem like groceries from the trunk, all whereas two armed teenagers get out of a close-by car and strategy them.

"The child stopped and checked out me and my daughter, checked out me and I mentioned, 'Oh God,'" the mom, 57, defined to ABC 7 Chicago this week. "Inside 20 seconds the child walked up and pulled a gun out on us."

Shortly after this preliminary confrontation, the 11-year-old approaches the scene from the course of the automobile the opposite two had gotten out of, which had reportedly parked in a close-by alley. Based on the victims, the younger boy appeared to skip as he approached them.

"He truly skipped like a baby all the way in which up, skipping like slightly—like younger children do," the mom continued. "He was being a child."

By the tip of the confrontation, the younger robbers made off with the victims' SUV, purses, and telephones.

On Thursday, Chicago police introduced that the 11-year-old boy had been arrested the day past in reference to the theft by the division's Vehicular Hijacking Activity Pressure. He at the moment faces a felony county of aggravated hijacking with a weapon and a misdemeanor depend of legal trespass to property.

Based on CBS Chicago, the boy appeared in Cook dinner County Juvenile Court docket the identical day his arrest was introduced. As a result of the truth that he's a minor, his identification has not been disclosed to the general public.

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A lady in Chicago marveled this week at an 11-year-old boy, arrested Wednesday, "skipping" to hitch his pals in carjacking her a couple of months in the past, as seen in a video. Above, a representational picture of against the law scene in Chicago.Scott Olson/Getty Photos

Throughout the courtroom look, the boy was arraigned on each fees, launched, and positioned beneath digital monitoring. He's subsequent as a result of seem in courtroom on February 17.

The mom additional acknowledged that she suspects the boy was not absolutely conscious of what he was concerned in.

"It truly makes me very unhappy that youngsters are round some of these conditions and never in class and doing what 11-year-olds often do," she mentioned, in line with CBS Chicago. "I do not truly suppose he knew what he was doing, or getting concerned with.

"I consider they're being taught that they will do no matter they need and there is not going to be a consequence. With the judges, the prosecutors, the place are these dad and mom, how are they elevating these kids?"

Police are nonetheless pursuing the opposite contributors within the theft.