{"id":155657,"date":"2026-02-14T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:56:11","slug":"deputy-saves-baby-unconscious-driver-after-florida-carjacking-ends-in-fiery-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155657\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy saves baby, unconscious driver after Florida carjacking ends in fiery crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Jacksonville carjacking turned into a blazing wreck Sunday when a fleeing suspect crashed the stolen car with the victim’s baby still strapped inside.<\/p>\n

Body camera footage released by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office<\/a> shows the chaotic aftermath after investigators say a man, later identified as 34-year-old Richard Younger, forcibly pulled a woman from her vehicle near 103rd Street and sped off \u2014 with her one-year-old child still inside.<\/p>\n

Deputies report that they quickly located the stolen vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. Instead of stopping, Younger fled, leading deputies on a brief pursuit that came to a violent end when he slammed into another vehicle, triggering a flame-filled explosion captured on bodycam video.<\/p>\n

See also: WPB man battles home invader after suspect removes window AC unit, breaks in<\/a><\/p>\n

Deputy Almin Residovic raced toward the burning wreckage, pulling an unconscious woman from the second vehicle to safety and rescuing the unharmed one-year-old from the stolen car. Officials say a 14-year-old was also in the car, but managed to escape before deputies arrived.<\/p>\n

Probable cause was found to book Younger for counts of carjacking, leaving the scene of a crash without rendering aid, aggravated fleeing from law enforcement after a crash, and false imprisonment of a child under 13 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Jacksonville carjacking turned into a blazing wreck Sunday when a fleeing suspect crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-155657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}