Horrifying footage captured the moment three teenagers stole a car moments after an Uber Eats driver left the vehicle to drop off an order.
The shocking incident happened outside a home on Romsey Place in Langwarrin, in Melbourne’s south-east, at 1.45pm on Thursday.
Three 17-year-olds from Reservoir, Oakleigh and Langwarrin have been charged with aggravated home invasion and aggravated vehicle theft following the incident.
CCTV footage from a neighbouring property showed the Uber Eats driver parking his Toyota Camry outside a house before getting out to drop off a delivery.
The 33-year-old, who had left the driver’s side door open, ran back moments later when he saw a teenager getting into the car.
The footage shows the alleged thief, who was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, reversing the vehicle in an attempt to flee.
The teenager kicked the man several times before his friend, who was wearing dark sportswear, emerged from a nearby stolen pickup truck.
He then hit the Uber Eats driver from behind and knocked him to the ground.
The Uber Eats driver (pictured) tried to stop the teenager from driving away in the allegedly stolen vehicle.
The man stood up and tried again to stop the teenager, but was dragged several meters while clinging to the car door.
He was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, including several cuts and scrapes.
Damian, who ordered the food for lunch, immediately called the police and said the incident was horrible.
“You could see the victim was reaching through the window to try to get the guy out,” he said. Herald of the Sun.
“Then we picked him up from around the corner and they pointed a knife at him.”
The teens then abandoned the car in Hughesdale before allegedly breaking into the home of an elderly couple.
Spiros Zois, 82, and his wife Angela, 74, were listening to the radio when the teenagers burst in and demanded their car keys.
Mr Zois was pushed to the ground and suffered a back injury before the trio walked away empty-handed.
“He pushed me to the ground and then they ran into all the bedrooms looking for the car keys,” Zois said. 7News.
The 17-year-old, who was seen wearing a grey hoodie (pictured), got into the car as the delivery man was dropping off some food at a house, before the man spotted the alleged thief.
The group was arrested by police shortly afterwards.
Two children appeared before a juvenile court on Friday while the third remained in hospital under police custody.
The alleged thieves are accused of stealing a pickup truck, a FWD and the Camry.
Two of the boys allegedly stole a knife and a knife sharpener from a hardware store in Frankston on the same day.
The trio is accused of committing 39 crimes in total, including assaults, car thefts and robberies of victims, according to a court fact sheet.
The teenagers will be back in the frontcourt on August 1.
