Citizen User Rescues 1-Year Old Boy from the Backseat of a Stolen Car
“I checked the license plate, and noticed it was the same license plate on the Citizen app.”
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2 min readAug 6, 2019
A 1-year old boy named Sincere Gilchrist was rescued by a Brooklyn hero Monday night, who used safety information from Citizen to recognize a car stolen with a child left all alone in the back-seat.
Timeline of Events
- 7:20p — Citizen reports a stolen vehicle in Brooklyn.
- 7:22p — Citizen identifies vehicle as white Mitsubishi Outlander with a 1-year old boy in the backseat.
- 7:23p — Incident is notified to 16,000 users in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with detailed description of vehicle.
- 7:31p — Incident is further notified to 266,000 users in Brooklyn.
- 8:29p — Citizen shares photo of child in stolen vehicle provided by NYPD.
- Approximately 8:45p — A Citizen user notices a suspicious car in her neighborhood, confirms the stolen car with child, calls 911.
- 9:04p — NYPD confirms over radio that the child has been located.
Citizen provided this information nearly an hour-and-a-half before the AMBER Alert hit nearby phones, providing the detailed information this Brooklyn hero needed to recognize the car and rescue the child.
“I can’t believe it. I was so happy that that little kid, that the baby was alive. ’Cause he was breathing and I was so, I was really happy, but I’m still in shock,” she told CBS New York.
