A quick-thinking 8-year-old girl saved herself and her younger sister in Wisconsin Sunday morning when a carjacker stole their father’s car while they were still in the back seat.
2-year-old Charley and Autumn Jorgenson were waiting for their father to finish buffing their SUV after going through a car wash near South Milwaukee when a stranger jumped into the moving car and peeled out of the lot.
“The guy tried to steal our car, I had to do something,” Charley told WTMJ.
“I should try to kick him or defend myself and Autumn. But then, I was like, I should stay in my seat and do nothing. Stay here, make questions but when I realized that dad had a key, I was like, he can’t do anything without a key.”
After asking the girls for their keys and realizing they don’t have them, the stranger yells at Charley to get out of the car, but he refuses to leave his little sister.
That’s when the man left the car about a mile up the road and the clever 8-year-old pigeon took the cell phone his father had left in the front seat, leaving his mother with a desperate voicemail.
“Mommy,” Charley was heard crying out. “I need you! We lost dad!”
Autumn, apparently aware of the danger she and her sister are in, can be heard in the background saying, “Where did the chest go?”
Charley called her mother immediately after the stranger ditched the SUV with her and her sister inside. NBC News NOW
Fortunately, their father, Adam Jorgenson, was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher while his wife worked to locate her iPhone, which showed the girls’ exact location just minutes from the car wash.
Police recovered the SUV and reunited the girls with their father at the scene.
“I ran as fast as I could out of the back of the police car to hug them,” Jorgenson told the outlet.
According to the father-of-two, he was only “an arm’s length” from the car, which he had left running, when the thieves pounced.
Charley and Autumn were waiting for their father to finish sweeping the car when the thieves attacked. NBC News NOW
Two men in a purple Buick Encore parked nearby asked Jorgenson for directions in an attempt to distract him while their accomplice slid into the SUV.
The two cars sped off, with Jorgenson yelling that there were children inside.
“I’m scared,” said Charley. “I was like, what happened?”
“He asked me, where is the key?” he continued.
“I was like, it’s a good thing my dad has a key. So I told him, my father has the key. Then, he told me to get out and I was like, what do I do? Should I run and be a scaredy cat or should I save my sister too so I said, what about Autumn?”
Three men have been arrested in connection with the theft. NBC News NOW
Her decision to stay and stay came may have just saved her and her sister’s lives, her father said.
“It makes me very proud that we raised our daughter to be a sufficient person, to think not only of herself and of others and then, what is the best way for me to get out of this situation?” Jorgenson said.
“How can I best solve this? What should I do? Do I need to sit or do I need to take action?”
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 their charges, although officials said criminal charges are pending.
The car theft is still under investigation.
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