A quick-thinking 8-year-old girl saved herself and her little sister in Wisconsin Sunday morning when a car thief stole her father’s car while they were still in the back seat.
Charley and Autumn Jorgenson, 2, were waiting for their father to finish polishing his SUV after stopping by a car wash near south Milwaukee when a stranger got into the moving car and left the parking lot.
“That guy was trying to steal our car, he should do something,” Charley recalled to WTMJ.
“I should try to kick him or defend myself and Autumn. But then I thought: I should stay in my seat and do nothing. Stay here, ask the questions, but when I realized that dad had the key, I thought: he can’t do anything without the key.
After demanding the girls’ keys and realizing they didn’t have them, the stranger yelled at Charley to get out of the car, but she refused to leave her little sister.
That’s when the man abandoned the car about a mile down the road and the bright 8-year-old girl lunged for the cell phone her father had left on the front seat, leaving her mother a frantic voicemail.
“Mom,” Charley can be heard crying through tears. “I need you! We lost dad!”
Autumn, apparently aware of the danger she and her sister had just experienced, can be heard in the background saying, “Where is daddy going?”
Charley called her mother immediately after the stranger left the truck with her and her sister inside. NBC News NOW
Luckily, their father, Adam Jorgenson, was on the phone with 911 operators while his wife worked to locate his iPhone, which pinpointed the girls’ exact location just minutes from the car wash.
Police recovered the van and reunited the girls with their father at the crime scene.
“I ran as fast as I could out of the back of that police car to hug them,” Jorgenson told the outlet.
According to the father of two, he was only “an arm’s length away” from the car, which he left running, when the thieves pounced on him.
Charley and Autumn were waiting for their father to finish polishing the car when the thieves attacked. NBC News NOW
Two men inside a purple Buick Encore parked nearby asked Jorgenson for directions in an attempt to distract him while their accomplice got into the truck.
Both cars accelerated and Jorgenson yelled that there were children inside.
“I was scared,” Charley said. “I was like, what’s going on?”
“He asked me where the keys are.” She continued.
“I thought, it’s a good thing my dad has the keys. So I told him, my dad has the keys. Then he told me to leave and I said, what should I do? Should I run and be a scared cat or should I save my sister too? So I said: What about Autumn?
Three men were arrested in connection with the brazen robbery. NBC News NOW
Her decision to stay and stay may have saved her and her sister’s lives, her father said.
“I’m very proud that we are raising our daughter to be self-sufficient, to think not only about herself and others, and then what’s the best way out of this situation?” Jorgenson said.
“What is the best way to solve it? That I have to do? Should I sit down or should I act?”
Police have since arrested three men, aged 21, 20 and 17, in connection with the terrifying crime.
The Oak Creek Police Department did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for more information about his charges, although officials said felony charges are pending.
The theft of the vehicle is still under investigation.
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