BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — Police confirm a child was inside a vehicle stolen from a Battle Creek gas station.
It happened Monday afternoon at the Citgo station at Capital and McKinley avenues.
A man who was pumping gas at the station said he noticed the pickup truck next to him "peel out" of the business. That's when a woman ran out of the gas station convenience store screaming that someone stole her truck with her 3-year-old son inside.
The man chased after the stolen pickup truck. Battle Creek Police Department Chief Jim Blocker said the suspect ditched the vehicle about a block away from the station.
The child was still inside the vehicle and is OK, according to Blocker.