VIDEO: South Florida mother fights off carjackers

HIALEAH, Fla. (WSVN)- A mother fought off two men in an attempted carjacking at a Hialeah gas station.

Surveillance cameras show how the masked men attempted to get into the car of one woman, but she locked herself in her vehicle. The men then moved on to another vehicle, but the woman inside fought back, fearing her kids would be abducted in the theft.

“She was a mom and what that bad guy didn’t know in the backseat of that car, were two kids and she wasn’t going to let them be taken. So she fought, she dragged the guy out of the car and they both ran away like cowards,” said Carl Zogby with the Hialeah Police Department.

Hialeah police say the would-be carjackers, Juan Carlos Gonzalez and Nicholas Rosado, ran to a getaway car driven by Rebecca Utria. Their high-speed getaway caught the attention of a Hialeah police officer.

“A Hialeah police patrolman who had no idea of what had just happened sees this car speeding, follows the car. The car ends up crashing against a fence,” said Zogby.

All three were arrested and booked on charges of attempted carjacking and fleeing police.