Woman takes carjacking suspect on wild ride outside her vehicle

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. – A Florida woman says she's still shaking after a man tried to climb through the driver's side window of her moving car on a busy highway.

Tracey Barnes called police to report the carjacking as it was happening Sunday in Wesley Chapel. She can be heard in the 911 call telling a dispatcher, "I have a man hanging onto my moving vehicle right now."

Barnes says 21-year-old Yosmin Amaya stepped in front of her car and waved his hands for help.

"And I rolled my window down a little bit and that's when I realized, 'Oh no, I'm in trouble.' He grabbed a hold of my window and reached in and touched me and said, 'I need your car, I need your car right now,'" Barnes said.

That's when she sped off, with Amaya still hanging onto the car.

Luckily, several people stepped in to help until deputies arrived.

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