Former Tuskegee Airman recounts daytime carjacking in Detroit; 4 teens charged
Detroit — As he stared down the barrel of a nickel-plated pistol wielded by a teenage gunman demanding the keys to his Jeep, Jesse Rutledge said an odd thought entered his mind:
"I'm thinking, 'This kid is so little; how's he going to see over the steering wheel?'" said the 88-year-old former Tuskegee Airman, who flew missions in World War II.
That initial thought was replaced by fear, said Rutledge, who was carjacked by four youths as he left a barber shop near Harper and Van Dyke about 4 p.m. Saturday.
"Yeah, I was scared," said Rutledge, a former gunner on a B-25 bomber, shaking his head. "I'm 80-something years old and I still got to fight out here."
Police arrested the alleged robbers — ages 13, 14, 15 and 16 — the next day.
By George Hunter
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