A 1-year-old baby boy was abandoned on the side of a busy road in New Orleans after his mother’s SUV was carjacked at a gas station.The infant was miraculously found unharmed sitting near the Almonaster Boulevard overpass late Wednesday morning.
Motorist Brian Stewart told the station WDSU he was headed to a landfill when he spotted what he initially mistook for "an object" or a "baby doll" on the side of the road.
"As I got closer I realized that was a real person there," Stewart said. "I pulled to the side of the road. Walked back. The baby started kinda crawling toward me. I called 911."
Police rescued the tot and later arrested the suspected carjacker, 21-year-old Johnathon Perkins, in New Orleans. He now faces charges of auto theft, aggravated kidnapping of a child and illegal possession of stolen property.