Ohio Mother Killed While Trying to Stop Carjackers from Fleeing with Her Sleeping 6-Year-Old Son in Vehicle

An Ohio mother was killed after she tried to thwart three car thieves who drove off with her sleeping 6-year-old still inside, and police are asking for the public's help locating the carjacking suspects.

Columbus Division of Police officers responded to the White Oak Park Condominiums north of Canal Winchester in southeast Columbus at around 1:30 a.m. on July 11, and found an injured woman near the intersection of Blue Knoll Drive and Annual Drive.

She was transported to Mount Carmel East Hospital and pronounced dead later that morning.

Investigators learned the woman, identified as 29-year-old Alexa Stakely, had been picking up her 6-year-old son from his babysitter's apartment.

She loaded the sleeping child into her Honda CR-V, but she returned to the apartment to retrieve something from the sitter.

That's when the suspects jumped into her vehicle, which was running, and began to drive away.

Stakely tried to stop the suspects, jumping onto the hood of the vehicle and yelling for the suspects to stop.

She fell off the hood and was injured. The suspect ultimately left the vehicle and fled the area.

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Detectives found the vehicle with the child unharmed and still sleeping inside.

Columbus police, who recently released surveillance video of the trio of suspects, urge anyone with information about the incident to come forward.

TMX contributed to this report.