Police: Tampa woman, child carjacked while on way to school

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Police are looking for a man they say carjacked a woman as she was taking her daughter to school in Tampa.

The incident happened Wednesday morning in front of their home.

According to a Tampa police press release, the child was already in the vehicle when a man approached the mother as she stood by the driver’s side door. He threatened her with a knife and she yelled for her daughter to jump out of the vehicle.

The daughter got out of the car and they ran. The man fled in the car.

An investigation continues.