Police searching for carjacking suspect who led owner on high-speed chase

A Jacksonville man says he was pumping gas when a stranger jumped into his car and took off Monday evening.

The man and his father chased after the suspect, who led them on a high-speed chase for about 20 minutes before crashing on I-295.

The suspects still haven’t been found.

“Daddy, they stole my car, they stole my car,” says Terrence Marshall about the call he received from his 27-year-old son who was pumping gas at the BP off Normandy Boulevard.

“I said, track your phone, and maybe we can find it,” he says.

And they did, a few miles away in a parking lot. As they were waiting for police, Marshall noticed two men pull up in a gold Ford F-150.

“I noticed the one in the passenger side, started walking towards my son’s car,” says Marshall who says the suspect then got into this son’s car.

“And looked like he was about to take off, so I pulled up and blocked him in there. The guy in the truck pulled up and they tried to pin me in to where I couldn’t back up or pull forward. He hit the back of my wife’s car and took off,” he says.

For about 20 minutes, Marshall says he was following the suspect.

“He had to be going at least 100-120 miles per hour, he was riding,” says Marshall.

Francis Delaney was driving on I-295 right in front of the chase. “It bumped into a truck that was about two trucks behind me, he says.

“He fish-tailed a couple of times, he hit the embankment, and the car started flipping, flipping eight or 10 times,” Marshall says.

“Broke the back window, looked into the car, and we didn’t see anybody in the car,” says Delaney.

While the suspects haven’t been found, Marshall is reminding others.

“If you’re just pumping gas, lock your cars, because these people are trying to get your car at no expense. They don’t care about you, they just want what you have,” he says.

There is surveillance video at the gas station, which police are reviewing.

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