Car stolen with 8-year-old inside; father helps rescue him

SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, GA -- A carjacker stole an SUV just moments after the driver got out to get gas. When the SUV began to pull off with an 8-year-old boy still inside, his father put his own life on the line to save his son.

On Sunday morning, the father was about to fill up his car at a Murphy USA gas station on Old National Highway in Georgia. His fiancée pulled her SUV right behind him to fill up her vehicle as well, and his son was inside her SUV.

Moments after she got out, the carjacker got in.

"I was just taking the gas cap off while she was going in to pay for it," said Malcolm Milliones.

Milliones was standing behind his vehicle and in front of her SUV. His son Rashaan was in the back seat of her SUV.

While she stepped inside to pay in advance, Milliones prepared to pump the gas.

And a person – maybe in his early teens, Milliones said, jumped out of a black Toyota and into her SUV, and drove off with Rashaan in the back seat.

"He jumped into the window of the SUV on the passenger side," Milliones said.

"Malcolm was kind of hanging onto the driver's side of the car," his fiancee Kristie Lovelace said. "He's like hitting at the car, he's going like, 'Stop the car, get out of the car, my son's in the car,' and the guy just kept going."

Milliones said as he tried to stop the SUV, the young carjacker looked panicked. He said he was able to distract the carjacker for a split second, and as he was falling off of the moving SUV, breaking his arm, Rashaan was able to jump out, just before the SUV sped off.

"He took the chance to jump out of the truck when I got the driver's attention," Milliones said. "That's how he said it, too – 'Now's my chance.'"

Milliones wasn't able to get a detailed description of the carjacker. The police report describes him in general terms as an African American with medium brown skin, 11- 14 years of age, wearing a white shirt and khaki shorts.

The stolen SUV is a silver 2014 Kia Sorrento, and Fulton County Police are looking for it, the carjacker and his accomplice.