challenger and takes off. the owner of the stolen car calls 911. alerted by police scanners, news helicopters are on the scene, as the suspect takes off with police in pursuit. news anchors follow all the action. this is a live picture you re watching from chopper 5. this is the car that police are following. the carjacker races through the streets and onto interstate 30 as the police fall behind. it s and unfolding under the tv cameras. this car racing down the freeway, you can see how much faster it s moving than the other traffic. the stolen car comes flying off the freeway onto abrams road. a few blocks away, 29-year-old jessica leaseman is having a weekday like any other. after work every day i pick up my kids, my son first and
for a long time. it was a good feeling to cry because i was so happy. i love my new van. it s about time i get a blessing. jessica says she s learned a few lessons. i will never jump out of the car and do that again. it could have ended so badly. he could have had a box cutter, gun, anything. i m just grateful that everybody walked away from this. yeah, i m proud of her. i m always going to be proud of her for that. every day people tell me, hey, you better be good, i m going to call your girlfriend. and for any other alleged fleeing felons or anyone speeding through a school zone, she has a few words of advice. go 20 in a school zone even if you re running from the cops. because you re going to run into a mad mama. coming up, on the very same day a taxi driver under fire. and later, what goes up most come down. opular smartphones.
him, what s wrong with you? the first thing that came out of my mouth is, you re in a school zone. i was like, calm down, let s see what he s got to say. jessica is outraged when the suspected tried to flee. i kicked the doors, i m like, you re not going to run away from this, no. i actually told charles, i m like, grab him because he s trying to run. i just grabbed his suspenders and hang on for dear life. he was like, let me go. she was like, no, you hit my car. even the news anchors are surprised by the couple s sheer tenacity. the driver and the passenger of a car that was hit have grabbed the driver that was fleeing police, and they threw him on the ground. they grabbed the guy. they were not going to let this guy get away. if we had to sit on him, that s what we would have done. jessica and charles are amazed how quickly the police arrived. they have no idea officers have
looking at the video again, jessica s reaction becomes even clearer to boyfriend charles. i know why she did that, it s because where she hit the man is where my son would always sit in the van. maybe she thinks jalen is in the back of the van. that s where he sits, always. within days of the crash, this video goes viral, with more than 5 million hits. people are like, hey, i seen you all on the news, you re that couple that took the dude down. i m like, yeah. seeing the video, a local radio host, big al mac, comes up with a happy surprise for the mama bear. oh, my god. teaming up with southwest fiat, he astonishes jessica with a brand-new car. that right there was overwhelming. i couldn t believe that anybody was going to purchase a vehicle for me. happy tears. these were tears i haven t had
then my daughter. jessica, her boyfriend, and her son are stopped at a red light, waiting to turn, when suddenly we ve had a collision here. i heard the brakes. i looked up. i heard, boom, boom. that right there was scary enough. the first thing i did was check out my son to make sure he s okay. i instinctively jumped out of my car to see why in the world somebody is ramming me that hard. oh, no. a very anger confrontation with the driver who was just hit. what jessica doesn t realize is she s confronting an alleged armed carjacker. she gets right up in his scene, as seen from another news chopper. i had no idea it was a car chase. i thought it was so the idiot trying to run the light. i was shocked that she ran up to him. i m screaming and yelling at