Atlanta police: Infant abandoned following carjacking

Police were working Thursday night to make sense of a “convoluted” case that involved a carjacking and a baby left alone near a southeast Atlanta intersection.

Atlanta police spokesman Officer Ralph Woolfolk said that the incident began as an argument involving “multiple individuals” in the 900 block of Estes Drive. At some point, one of the parties involved stole a vehicle and drove off.

The car had an infant inside.

The child was later found in a car seat near the intersection of Jesse Hill Jr. Drive and Coca Cola Place. The child was OK, Woolfolk said, but was taken to nearby Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital as a precaution.

Woolfolk said a vehicle was recovered at a different location, but police were still working to confirm it was the stolen car.

Investigators were speaking Thursday night with “an individual that we believe could possibly be responsible,” Woolfolk said. That person was not in custody.

Few other details were available Thursday. Woolfolk said all of the parties involved were believed to be “acquainted.”