"They didn't see it coming," said Major Chad Norvell of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. "Three o'clock in the morning, just sitting there at the light."
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Deputies say a man and woman were stopped at a red light in a Toyota 4 Runner on FM 1464 at West Oaks Village when a man walked up and smashed their rear windshield with a bat.
"(The driver) stepped out to see what was going on and the (suspect) jumps in the driver seat and takes off," Norvell said.
A woman was sitting in the backseat of the SUV and was inside the car with the suspect for a few minutes before jumping from the moving vehicle. She had minor scrapes and bruises.
The SUV was later found abandoned about a half mile away from where it was stolen in a neighborhood near West Oaks Village at Scenic Oaks.
John Rendon tells Eyewitness News his wife woke up around 3 a.m. and heard loud music coming from the street and spotted the stolen car parked across the street. She told her husband to call the police.
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"Maybe after about 10 or 11 minutes, several cop cars arrived and one of the individuals had a flashlight shining in there and opened up the door and shut off the engine," Rendon said.
Authorities are searching for the suspect.