Renee Vickman's parents own the car, and they were on their way to pick her up from the hospital with her newborn baby boy.
She said the video her neighbor captured was terrifying; and, unfortunately, it's not the first time they've been hit.
His mom was in the labor and delivery unit, waiting to get a ride home, when her father sent her a text message that the catalytic converter on his car had been stolen, and he couldn't come get her. "They are kind of putting something in the trunk, and then getting in to drive away, and one of them clearly has an assault-style rifle," Vickman said.
"My dad had spray-painted it orange before he came down, because he wanted to hopefully deter them from doing this, and it did not work," Vickman said.The Cook County Sheriff's Department has been leading the charge to deter catalytic converter thefts by offering to spray paint the devices with a sheriff's office symbol and star. Some events also provide repairs to damaged vehicles.
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