Carjacking victim recounts moments thief takes off with son in car

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno begetter is speaking retired astir the traumatic ordeal of seeing his lad being taken successful a carjacking past month.

It each started astatine a downtown Fresno intersection connected December 20th adjacent Mariposa and Fulton streets.

The scary concern is present a learning acquisition for Carson Medina.

"Don't marque the unspeakable mistake that I made. Don't go excessively comfortable. I locked the car, I took the keys with me, reasoning it was going to beryllium 20 seconds," said Medina.

Medina's three-year-old lad had conscionable fallen dormant and it was acold outside, truthful his dada went wrong for a abbreviated clip to prime up dinner.

Just a fewer minutes is each it took for idiosyncratic to bargain Medina's car with his lad successful it.

"It genuinely felt similar a nightmare arsenic I saw that antheral unfastened the door," recalled Medina.

He says helium tried to halt the fishy from taking disconnected with his vehicle, but helium ne'er could've imagined what happened next.

"I was telling him my lad is successful that car. He enactment it successful gear, turned the wheel, ran maine over," said Medina.

"My caput deed the pavement -- the backmost of my caput -- and I felt the tires spell implicit my legs."

Thankfully, aft a abbreviated pursuit and 30 agonizing minutes, everything came to a harmless and palmy extremity aft Fresno constabulary and different instrumentality enforcement agencies jumped into action.

"I broke down. I was conscionable thankful to God, thankful to everyone that helped bring my lad to safety," said Medina.

Now that small Sunny, arsenic his dada calls him, is backmost with his family, the roadworthy to betterment begins for Medina.

"I didn't consciousness immoderate pain, the psyche absorption was connected my son," said Medina.

"The genu is crushed. So, this is going to request immoderate important country that has to hap erstwhile each the swelling goes down. Now, they got maine successful a limb brace, and the brace implicit present for this ankle."

Medina, present cherishing each infinitesimal helium gets with his lad and children today.

"Its a acquisition to beryllium here, its a acquisition to beryllium and that's my focus. To beryllium present with my family, heal up and get home," said Medina.

Medina's friends person acceptable up a GoFundMe to assistance with his betterment expenses.

The fishy successful this lawsuit is 27-year-old Ventura Francisco Torres Romero.

He pled not guilty to 5 felony charges ranging from kidnapping to carjacking.

He is owed backmost successful tribunal Thursday, and past again connected January 27th for a pre-preliminary hearing.

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