Carjacker jumped on and off moving train to evade Chicago police helicopter, officials say (It didn't work)

CHICAGO — An armed carjacker tried to flee from a Chicago Police Division helicopter by leaping on and off a transferring practice, officers stated, however he ended up getting arrested (and hospitalized) anyway.

It began when a grey Mazda minimize off a 35-year-old man as he drove within the 4400 block of South Keating round 1:45 p.m. on Monday, January 27. The Mazda’s passenger acquired out, pointed a gun on the man’s head, and ordered him out of the car, officers stated.

After permitting the sufferer to seize a bag from the passenger seat, the hijacker drove away along with his 2012 Dodge Durango.

A short while later, one of many CPD’s helicopter models situated the hijacked SUV and commenced to comply with it. The aircrew was watching as Gorostieta bailed out of the automobile and jumped onto a transferring practice close to 79th and Central Park, in keeping with his arrest report.

The crew was nonetheless watching when Gorostieta jumped off the transferring practice and ran right into a storage within the 3500 block of West 78th Place, the report stated. Cops discovered him hiding below a car contained in the storage. The report states that they took him to Christ Hospital for “accidents obtained previous to [police] arrival.”

Investigators decided that the Mazda he jumped out of had been stolen too, prosecutors stated.

Decide David Kelly detained him on expenses of aggravated vehicular hijacking and felony trespass to a car.

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