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STOLEN CAR SCARE--May 30, 2013 Atlanta: Kory Griffin (left) holds son, Jarren Griffin as Atlanta police investigator, A. Allen interviews Jarren's mother, Hilary Grotewald in the CVS parking lot at 2555 Bolton Road. Hilary Grotewald was taking her son to pre-K when she stopped at the Racetrac station on Marietta Boulevard in northwest Atlanta just before 8 a.m. Thursday, May 30, 2013 to put air in a tire. That’s when Grotewald’s morning went from routine to a mother’s worst nightmare as a car thief jumped into her sport utility vehicle. “I was getting air in my tire and I felt the car start to move,” Grotewald told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It thought I forgot to put it in park, and I realized it was going too fast for that, so when I looked up, there was someone in the driver’s seat and I realized it was being stolen.” The thief pulled into the parking lot of a nearby CVS pharmacy and abandoned the vehicle and child. “Luckily, I think he just wanted my purse and my cell phone so he took all of that and ran off,” Grotewald said, adding that her son was okay, “just really scared.” Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said witnesses described the suspect as a black male wearing a gray hat and carrying a gray backpack. He was last seen running east on Marietta Boulevard toward LaDawn Lane. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
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