Suspect In Gwinnett Hijacking, Kidnapping Arrested: Police

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Authorities have arrested an Atlanta man accused of kidnapping a mother and her child when he hijacked their car from a Duluth convenience store.

Quinton Antonio Rogers, 42, was arrested Tuesday by Gwinnett County police with help from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office. Rogers, who was identified by detectives through unspecified physical evidence, is charged with hijacking a motor vehicle and two counts of kidnapping. He’s being held without bond at the Gwinnett County Jail.

Rogers’ arrest came after what authorities believe was a random attack in August on a woman and her 1-year-old child at an Exxon station on Boggs Road. After demanding money from the woman and punching her in the face, the suspect forced her into the back seat of her car and hijacked it.

Fearing for her life, the woman grabbed her baby's car seat with the child in it and jumped from the moving vehicle. The woman sustained minor injuries, and the child was unharmed. The car was found abandoned the next day in Duluth.