Bystanders run to help toddler ditched by carjacker in Florida: VIDEO

Police say a toddler was caught up in an Oakland Park carjacking in Florida on Wednesday.The Broward Sheriff's Office in Florida is searching for a man who they said carjacked a woman and took off with her SUV while her child was still in the backseat.

According to BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro, the incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at 850 W. Commercial Blvd. in Oakland Park. "The preliminary investigation revealed the victims, a mother and her 3-year-old daughter, were involved in a car accident with another vehicle," Caro wrote in a news release. "When the mother exited her car to exchange information with the other driver, an unknown adult male entered the driver side of her vehicle and began to drive away with her child inside."

According to authorities, the mother grabbed onto the front passenger door of her white SUV and yelled to the carjacker that her daughter was inside the vehicle.Grandmother, mother, 3-year-old carjacked at gunpoint outside Park Ridge 7-Eleven, police say"First, the subject is seen exiting the vehicle with the child in the car seat and leaving her a sidewalk. Another moment captures the subject abandoning the vehicle.

Those who wish to remain anonymous are urged to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS , online at browardcrimestoppers.org, or dial **TIPS from any cellphone in the United States.Copyright © 2024 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.

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