We're just gonna use
your first name. How do you?
JEREMR and what grade are you going into?
I'm already integrated. I'm in 6th grade.
Yeah. How's it been going?
Started middle school. Good, good.
Do you have a favorite part so far?
Not really. I wasn't thinking
to school either. Trust
me. So Jeremy. It's been a
week since you were out with
your mom at this McDonald's.
Tell me what you remember,
you know why you guys came out here,
so we were just coming out here
to the door dash so we can go out
of time to go visit my auntie.
And my mom went to go check if the door
was open to go pick up this door dash.
And it wasn't. So she got back in the car.
Then the people who robbed
us had came right behind us.
They had blocked us in.
Then there was two.
There was two boys who I came up to
us and they pointed good at Kansas.
I tried to get out immediately immediately,
but the boy had pushed me back in the car.
So I stood in the car.
He had told my mom leave everything in
the car. Your phone, your keys, everything.
She had a get out the car so did I.
She asked if she can grab her daughter out.
She said, they said yes, hurry up so.
Then Umm. Say anything.
Not that really, no.
Right? I gotta say, yeah,
like 1413 like in their teens.
One of them had smashed my sister's tablet
on the ground that we just started running.
We start running over to the parking lot
and luckily this person let us use his
phone to call the police. We are called.
We had caught the police then.
They said that they will be there shortly,
whatever right so.
Then we are asked the McDonald's person if
we can go in there and wait for the police.
He said yes, he let us in. We waited.
It was a detective or a police officer.
He had asked us a couple of questions like.
Like how many were there?
Did you possibly get at their
license plate or not? We did not.
Then they have said that they
have found the car shortly.
Like like right up the road.
And also it said that they had left it
over at BP's and they left it up in drive.
And so they left up in their car.
And left it up and drive in.
Let it roll across the
street over to shelves.
That must have been a lot.
Small period of time. Feeling.
I was like really scared I
was like really shook because
I was like the first time.
I was not really thinking that
that would actually happen.
I was like, really shook.
I was really afraid I was having second
thoughts about us going over to town.
But luckily we did.
I felt kind of safe when
the police got over there.
Yeah, it's been a few days.
How do you feel now? This happened.
Yes. I'm thinking that.
That whoever they are. They're
gonna get caught no matter what.
There's been a lot of younger.
Teens doing this sort of thing
and taking cars stealing them.
What does that make you feel? You and your.
Yes, because it makes no sense
like they just took our car.
Then they just drove right over
to the gas station for no reason.
Like we did not even do
nothing. And you are with your
little sister, right? Yes, Yep.
She's pretty good.
My mom is like calling her
mom like every single night.
Pretty much, I think telling
her that she's scared and also
she has like really bad anxiety.
Do you think it's gonna be
hard for you to like you know,
go driving at night and and things
like that for me, yes.
You know what would you like to say to
those boys if they're if they're watch?
I would like to say to them that
they're gonna get caught and
they're gonna be in prison for a
long time. Because they should
never did that to my family.
And you know you live with your dad,
right? Yes? So in Grand Rapids.
What was it like to be away
from your dad at that time?
Now what? What was that?
So you you mean like like?
Yeah, I was like really,
I feel like really safe so I
know that my dad would never let
something like that happen to me.