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16-year-old girl charged in Chicago carjacking spree
A 16-year-old girl has been charged with carjacking four separate drivers at gunpoint this year, and with stealing a car with a young child in the back seat.
CHICAGO - The two carjacking suspects who drowned after jumping into the Little Calumet River on the South Side on Saturday morning have been identified as Curtis Hicks, 21, and Amos Gibson, 26.
Illinois State Police said that they spotted a carjacked car around 4:40 a.m., and tracked it to 173rd and Torrence Avenue.
"Multiple suspects" got out, got into a second car, and took off.
Police chased the car until it crashed at 127th Street and Indiana Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood.
Three suspects from the vehicle were placed into custody, ISP said.
Two men – identified as Hicks and Gibson – jumped into the Calumet River to escape police, and died.
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