Mom and Baby Escape Carjacker

July 15, 2011— -- A young mother is lucky to be alive after she escaped a carjacker by rolling out of her Lexus on busy highway I-495, the Capital Beltway.

On Wednesday night 24-year-old Elysya, who didn't want to give her last name, pulled into a gas station on Edmondson Avenue in Baltimore in her 1995 Lexus.

She was starting to exit the car to go inside the gas station when Terron Alvin White, 22, also a Balitmore resident, jumped in the driver's seat.

Baltimore police received a phone call shortly after 10 p.m. when witnesses alerted them to the alleged carjacking. White had allegedly driven off with Elysya and her 20-month-old son, Juju.

White eventually sideswiped a trooper on I-95 who had been working a double lane closure, and drove faster than 100 mph, police said, as the trooper tried to pull him over.

Minutes later another trooper saw White on 1-495, the Capital Beltway. He tried to pursue White, but police said White refused to stop.

"When I saw a northern Virginia sign, 495 West, I'm like, 'Oh, my gosh, he's gonna take me to Virginia, rape me and kill me in front of my son or something," Elysya told WJZ. "I asked him to pull over thousands of times. He was doing like 110 at one point, so I'm just thinking, 'If he's doing 110, then he hits anybody, we're gonna flip or something."

At one point White slowed to about 10 to 20 miles an hour and that's when police said Elysya grabbed her son in her arms, clutched him to her chest, and pushed open the car door.

Then she rolled out of the car onto the four-lane highway.

"He was weaving all over the roads and kind of close to the shoulder when she decided to make her move," Maryland State Police spokesperson Elena Russo told ABCNews.com.

Fortunately for Elysya she was already nearly surrounded by police. Behind the trooper were three other patrol cars. Russo said "they did a good job of creating a barrier between the car and the motoring public."

After Elysya rolled out of the car the police vehicle behind her car quickly veered off.

"I really didn't want to jump but I didn't know what else to do," she told WJZ. "So I acted like I was putting my seat belt on with this hand and I pushed the door open while he was looking in the rearview mirror."

Shortly afterward White pulled over onto the shoulder of the Beltway and was taken into custody.

Documents obtained from the District Court of Maryland show White faces several charges including kidnapping of an adult and child, assault, and theft. Incredibly, Elysya only suffered a cut to her head and the baby escaped unharmed. They were both brought to Suburban Hospital and discharged Thursday morning, Russo said.