Three Teens With Guns, Ski Mask, Charged in Carjacking
BIRMINGHAM AL
AL.com
February 11, 2025
Three teens are in custody after police say they carjacked a man in southwest Birmingham.
The young suspects – ages 14, 15, and 17 – were captured after a short chase. Police recovered a gun, three ski masks, and the victim’s vehicle.
The investigation began just after 10:35 p.m. Friday when a man was carjacked at gunpoint in the 1700 block of Pearson Avenue S.W. The victim was not injured.
Within an hour of the crime, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald, the Birmingham Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center alerted officers the stolen vehicle was traveling through the West End neighborhood.
West Precinct patrol officers, along with BPD’s Tactical Unit and Special Enforcement Team officers assigned to Operation Knight Rider, spotted the vehicle and were involved in a brief car chase with the suspects.
The three suspects bailed from the vehicle near 26th Street Southwest at St. Charles Avenue S.W.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Star One helicopter assisted officers in the search.
The teens were captured not far from where they abandoned the vehicle.
The 17-year-old is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a first-degree robbery charge.
The 15-year-old is charged on a juvenile petition of first-degree robbery and attempting to elude.
The 14-year-old is charged in juvenile court with first-degree robbery.
The two younger suspects are in the custody of the Jefferson County Juvenile Detention Center.
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