2 charged with kidnapping woman and baby in Chicago carjacking
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A 14-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man have been arrested in a carjacking and kidnapping in the West Loop on Tuesday afternoon
Police said, around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, a 29-year-old woman and a 1-year-old girl were in the back seat of a car in the 400 block of West Harrison Street, when two people got in the car and started driving.
When the car got to the intersection of Harrison and Paulina streets, the carjackers pulled out a gun and forced the victims out of the car.
The victims were not injured in the carjacking, and police later recovered the stolen vehicle in the 3500 block of South King Drive.
Two people were taken into custody.
On Wednesday, 18-year-old Taylen Byndum, of Bolingbrook, was charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking, one count of armed kidnapping, and one count of aggravated kidnapping. A 14-year-old girl was charged with one count each of aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed aggravated kidnapping, and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Byndum was due to make his first court appearance on Thursday. Court information for the 14-year-old girl was not immediately available.
