Reading Police Search For Carjacking Suspect
READING (CBS) – Reading Police are asking residents to keep their doors and windows locked after a carjacking suspect fled Thursday afternoon.
Police said the attempted carjacking took place around 12:30 p.m. in the Home Goods parking lot on Main Street.
Before police arrived on scene, the suspect fled the area.
Officers searched the town throughout the afternoon, but the suspect has not yet been located.
During the search, Wood End Elementary School was ordered to shelter in place as a precaution.
"Residents are advised to stay vigilante until the suspect is apprehended. Police are asking residents to keep doors and windows locked, and use extra caution," Reading Police said.
At one point, the suspect had an interaction with an officer but got away, police said.
Reading resident, Robert Kiley, claims he witnessed that interaction and chased after the suspect himself.
"I lunged for him and grabbed his sweatshirt and he pulled out of my grasp," Kiley said.
Police describe the suspect as a clean shaven white man in his 20s. He is believed to be about six feet tall, wearing a black sweatshirt with an unknown logo and a black baseball hat.
Anyone who sees the suspect or anything out of the ordinary is asked to call Reading Police at (781) 944-1212.
WBZ-TV's Louisa Moller contributed to this report.
