Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Little Boy Chases Suspect Who Punched His Mom

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

Chasity Worrick was going to a food bank with three of her children on Veterans Day when a man tied to a car theft and shoplifting at Dick's Sporting Goods punched her in the face and tried to steal her car. Police in Grove City, Ohio were already chasing the suspect and his friends when Worrick's 5-year-old son, Aidan, chased the man who punched her. The entire ordeal was recorded by surveillance and police body-worn cameras. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes over the entire story in this episode of Crime Fix —a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Grow your own audience today – go to https://opus.pro/crimefix and get 65% off an annual Opus Pro plan for the month of November.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. A police officer chases after a man who attacked a mother of four at a food bank. He hit me in my jaw, knocked me down on the ground, took my keys, then he was running, and he was already on the chase. The mom's five-year-old son ran after the man who attacked his mother. I don't know I think that's timothy. They talk about the ordeal that was caught on camera. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy, and this is Crime Fix.

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you can get 65% off an annual plan. All Chastity Warwick was trying to do was feed her kids when she was punched in the face by someone who wanted to steal her car and all of this was recorded by security cameras. This all unfolded in Grove City, Ohio, just outside of Columbus. That's the state's capital on Veterans Day. Get on the crowd. Get on the ground. You understand me? Sprawl out. Grove City Police wrote on Facebook, officers were alerted to the presence of a stolen vehicle on Stringtown Road at Jackson Pike. While searching for the stolen vehicle, a theft was reported by employees of Dick's sporting goods on Stringtown Road. Officers located the stolen vehicle westbound on Stringtown Road at I-71. The driver of the stolen vehicle crashed into another car and

three male suspects fled from the vehicle. Two additional female suspects remained with the car who matched the description of the theft at Dick's sporting goods. Two of the male suspects were caught by police at businesses on Jackpot Road. The last suspect ran across all lanes of I-71 at approximately 5.30 p.m. to escape arrest. The suspect, a 20-year-old male, punched a mother in the face and demanded her car keys. One of the victim's children chased the suspect as he tried to steal the victim's car. A Grove City officer arrived, chased the suspect on foot, and made the arrest. Of the five suspects arrested in connection to the stolen vehicle, two were 20 years old, two were 16 years old, and one was 17 years old. Now, the very beginning of the police chasing the car

was captured by police dash cameras. 71. I need another car they're running. Get out. Over the fence. So police are chasing the suspects from the stolen car and theft at Dick's sporting goods.

As this was happening, the mother of four named Chastity Warwick was pulling into the parking lot of a food bank. Chastity was there to get food for her family. And as you can see in the video, She has three of her children with her, including five-year-old Aden, who is in the blue coat. They walk toward the door of the food bank.

If you look at the camera from this angle, you can see a man enter the frame wearing all black, and he's running toward Chasity and her children. He's a 20-year-old man. If you look closely, you see the man who ran through the lot, take a swing at Chastity. And you can see a little guy there in a blue coat. That's five-year-old Aden. The man who hit Chastity takes off, and five-year-old Aden runs. after the man who punched his mom in the face and took her keys. Chasity and her other children follow and a police officer runs into the lot to chase the suspect. Here's one of the officers

body-worn camera videos showing him chasing one of the suspects across I-71, a major interstate. You'll hear Chasity and her kids screaming in the background. No! Stop! Stop! Stop! You're going to go out. We're trying to look at it.

Ohio food collection. Ohio food collection. Police stop! Hey! Police! You're under arrest! On the ground, now! Puffs?

I'll probably go from. I'll probably go. I'll try for you. One sixty, seven, one you two. Don't move, all right? Don't move. Good job. Go ahead.

Now here's the other one-rail. Now here's the chase from another angle. Get on the... Get on the track. Don't stand me! Roll out! Don't move! We're at!

Over. 150, red shoes, black hoodies detained. Under 10531. I'm gonna get my car. Yep, go ahead. Sorry about that. You're good, bud. You're good. Hey.

Yeah. I'm welcome my stomach. I run them out of stuff. Yep, you sure can. You got anything on you? No. Anything on you that's going to pick me, stick me? You can check.

You can make, get my phone at that car. Say that one more time. Can you make sure, give my phone at the car? I need to live out. You got to be in a car. All right, we're back this way. Back over. Yeah, I heard you.

I heard you. Up to your. Up to your butt. Hey Hunter. You just want to take him? What? You just want to take him? Yeah, just take him to your car with you.

Just take him to your car with you. Just take him to your car with you. Yeah. He just wants to know about his phone. He just wants to know about his phone. Well. We'll get all of it, man. We'll get all of it, man.

Markell Freeman is loaded into the back of a cruiser and he's very worried about his phone. We've got a line here. They're right here. You're right here. Go on the bag with your lighter for your property with your property but you're going in the bag with your lighter for your property which you're going to go to Okay, I just want to make sure somebody was with it trying to get a comment on. So probably keep her, like, I'd say it won't think it, but you can't have to do with you. So 20.

You can keep that line. Let me spit. Move. Hey, if I got a spit, what do you want to do? You need stop having to spit, dude. Nah, I got it. Because you know how when you run, if you ain't going to water or not, then you get this. I don't know if you ain't ever ran too far.

Okay. If you only have a code three and nothing else you're investigating right now, get the certain phone now. So Chastity Warwick is the woman who was. assaulted. And she looks like she's doing a lot better. And she's joining me now with her young son, five-year-old Aden. So Chastity, first of all, how are you doing after this ordeal? I'm doing pretty good. Still pretty shook up about the whole situation. But besides that, I'm doing pretty good, stronger and stronger every day as I get since the incident happened. Take me back to when this happened. Kind of tell me if you don't mind exactly how this went down. Okay. So how it happened was that I ended up going to the food bank to get food for my kids. Because at the time, at the time, at the time, we didn't have food stays because the government was shut down. So we ended up going to the food bank to get food for the kids. And I ended up looking up to this gentleman that was to the side. And he was bent down. He looked like he was out of breath every.

thing and I was like so I ended up saying hey hey sir is this a way to go to the entrance because I've never been there before so this is my first time being there so I was like is this the way you go to enter it they didn't even they even put two together sirens going on and him as well telling me about about this and now but sirens and the lights and all going on so I decided to look at him and as I looked at him he hit me in my jaw knocked me down on the ground took my keys then he was running and he was already on the chase right I didn't know but he was already on the chase about on a robbery and so it was just right it was the wrong time wrong place wrong time

he ended up getting me and I ended up going to um he and knocked him down get my keys and then my son aiden end up going after him so aiden tell me you saw somebody hurt your mom and you ran after Tell me what you did. My walk out today and my head did that in the face. Yeah, you're hitting the guy in the face, huh? Yeah. I want to do this because I don't want to be bad down. I want to take my mom's keys.

Yeah. I wouldn't want to take, they didn't want him to take my mom's keys. That's what he's saying. Wow. So Chastity, I mean, this had to be terrifying. I mean, you're a mom. I am with young kids and this happens. I mean, this is unfolding and you see Aiden running for this guy and trying to hit this guy.

What is going through your mind? Oh, well, at the time, I couldn't, I couldn't think. Like, at the time of everything going on, it was going on so fast that I didn't even see where my son went. I didn't even see while my kids around all I know is getting up and real, coming back to reality after it all. happened, being shook up, and I felt like, honestly, a deer in headlights. That's the only way to describe it. That's how I felt so much in shock that I didn't know what to do, how to do. And I just got up and ran and got my keys, my kids, and I looked at my kids. I said, let's go, let's go to the car and let's lock the door. And that's what we did. And then

the police arrived and got him down all right there. And then I called my mom, her and my sister ended up coming. And it was just, it all happened so fast, so quick. and I'm just I'm thankful very very very I can't say it enough but I'm very thankful very thankful that it happened the way it did and it wasn't worse than what it was because it could have been worse yeah I could got stabbed stabbed or shot I didn't know what that guy had on him all I know it like you try taking my keys to get away to to go further away from the cops and how it went down it's just it's it's crazy I I know now you're kind of interested in doing some self-defense type classes and stuff like that.

Yes, yes, yes. I am having future plans of getting self-defense classes because I absolutely need them for myself and for I could say keep safe my children. So, Aidan, how do you feel about all of these people coming in asking you about what happened with your mom? Oh, but my mom. A horse will beat my mom up, right? Yep, right. Because he beat, he beat mom up.

Yeah, because he's not on the wall, wife. Yep. And then they did they take my mom tea. Yeah. I don't want my mom. I don't want me to take more tea. That's how I will my mom. So, oh, he loves his mom, he said.

Yeah, I'm sure he does. Very much. So, Chastity, were you shocked that Aiden did that? I mean, he's five years old. I was, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm going to be straight, honest. I am very, very, very shocked. I would expect him, I had three children with me that day.

And I would expect it my oldest to do something like that, but never my youngest, never my baby. Like, any day I think of, like, I cannot believe that it was him of all of them. Like, I am very shocked. But he is, he is my baby, and I know he loves me very much. So, I mean, I don't doubt me one bit. Chastity hopes that people will learn from what happened to her. I pray out of all of this, of my story that got out of there for everybody. I just pray and for the future that if I can't stop him from ever robbing another person,

because you can't make somebody do something that they don't want to do. but what I can say is that I pray that he never crosses another mother that has children when he robs them because it puts a lot on the whole family. It's not just the mother or the father that's out there that gets robbed or any kind of harm. But when you have children in the middle of it all, one, it's scary. Two, those babies are your everything. So if anything ever happens to them, I can't imagine where I would be or how I would. would be. So it definitely, it definitely does open up a big huge eye opening when there's kids

involved. That's one thing I can say. And I'm blessed that my babies are all okay. Well, I am happy that you, I'm sad that you're still shaken up, but it's understandable. I'm glad, though, that you all are safe. Chastity Warwick and Aiden, thank you so much for talking with you. Yes, thank you so much, too. So to discuss, you know, this awful case, I want to bring in. Lieutenant Jason Stern with the Grove City Police Department there outside of Columbus. Lieutenant Stern, thanks so much for coming on. Gosh, this case, you know, you've got mom just trying to go to the food bank to get some food for kids. And I just, it's unbelievable to me that somebody socks her in the face and her five-year-old son chases after the guy.

Yeah, it's a pretty remarkable story from start to finish. very, very thankful that she's not, no lingering injuries there, thankful that none of the kids were hurt. These kind of things can happen quickly, and so we're very blessed there. Most certainly. You know, what do you think the lessons are that can be learned from this incident? Well, I guess we'll start kind of at the end and work our waist backwards. So we would obviously never encourage anyone, especially children, to chase after a violent subject. Give us a call. Stay with your mom.

Be a good witness. But all of that said, tremendous bravery for this young man. Yeah, most certainly. I mean, I am just really glad that Aiden wasn't hurt in this whole process. And I'm sure his mother is, too. she's still really shaken up and recovering from this. I think it will take her a while, you know, to move past this. And she really wants to, I think, learn from this as well and learn some skills. Talk to me about what women can do to, you know, protect themselves. Well, a couple

things. So first, before we go too far on this, if you are ever the victim of crime it is not your fault that is that is some as a criminal's poor choice a bad evil choice that someone else made and that impacted your life so as we talk about things that you can do to keep yourself safe keep that in mind because i don't want someone to hear a small snapshot and think that we're victim blaming if if a criminal puts themselves into your life and heaven forbid does something to injure you or to steal from you or anything worse that's not your fault, that's the fault of the person I made that choice. So that being said, number one thing when you're out in public is to be aware of your surroundings. We call it situational awareness.

Everybody's got their own definition for situational awareness. I like to say be an active participant in the world around you. So if you rewind yourself back to your days in class and you talk about active listening or, you know, kids that are in class not paying attention to sleep and head down on the desk. I want you to think about that active listening skills. You know, they're engaged, eye contact, paying attention to the teacher in the room. Take that same behavior and now apply it when you're walking around in life. So if you're at the grocery store or in a parking lot, leaving your house, coming home from work, driving a car. Anywhere you're at, you need to be an active participant in the world around you. So that's the first step. Then the next step,

we encourage have a plan for whatever your circumstance is, if you're at home, if you're driving in your car, if you're at work, have a plan if something bad were to happen. And then the third step to self-defense scenarios is be ready to execute your plan, whatever that might be. Well, I am just glad that Chastity was not, and I'm sure you are too, more seriously injured. But still, this is something that did injure her and has shaken her. And obviously, she has a brave little boy and thank goodness he wasn't hurt as well yeah it's this this was bad enough and it could have been so much worse um i mean i can't imagine what it what it must feel like for those children to watch that happen to their mother right in front of them and then to be her you know she's there

to protect her kids and now at least for a moment she's she's knocked on the ground and just just scary all around. You said it well. I'm very thankful that nothing else worse happened. I mean, you've got a kid that's chasing him through a parking lot. There's cars around. The suspect's trying to steal her car. You know, there could have been a crash there. So thankful that nothing bad happened. Thankful that our officer got there quickly and was able to make an apprehension. You know, Lieutenant Stern, this is, we're getting into the time of year where women are going to be out, maybe shopping with their kids. This is a woman who was out with her. her kids, you know, the holidays are upon us. It gets darker a little earlier. Is there anything

women in particular should be doing to protect themselves? Yeah, there's a couple of quick tips that we can talk about. Obviously, every tip you need to decide if it's appropriate for you in your situation. But first, if it is dark, park in lighted areas as best as you can, you should always let, whether you're a man or woman, young or old, let your family and friends know where you're at you know today's technology you can share your locations if you're comfortable doing that that'll help if you do have an emergency so people know where to go and that could be for anything medical emergency or or an issue with violence so letting people know where you're at parking in well-ed areas

be really paying attention to those people who are watching you so we all know what it feels like to have a normal interaction if we meet someone on the street or meet someone in a grocery store aisle that we don't know and maybe catch each other's eye, you have a glance, so hello, maybe, and then you move on. That's typical normal interaction. But if you notice someone that's staring at you or really watching you for an extended period of time or worse, following you, those are the kind of things you need to be watching for and paying attention. And then I said, you need to have a plan.

So if you're being aware of your surroundings and you do see someone that's watching you for either an extended time where they're following you, your plan needs to be called a police, get a manager at the store go to go somewhere where there are people if you're in your car call 911 start driving to the police station a quick a quick way to tell if someone's following you in your car just make a bunch of right turns so that you're going all the way around and back into the same direction and if the car's still following you that's a pretty bizarre move so that should be a good indicator that you're that someone is following there's just a couple of quick tips it changes if you have kids with you like she did so she's got to be a double alert for her safety

and her kids plus she has to be able to keep control of them there's a lot going on there kids can be a big distraction they really can and everybody's safety kids mom everybody is paramount i'm just glad that i'm glad that she's okay at lieutenant jason stern thank you so much thank you for having me and that's it for this episode of crime fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.