Kids OK After Mom's Car Stolen From Donelson Gas Station

DONELSON, TN -- Two men stole a car with three sleeping children inside from a Donelson gas station early Saturday morning.

The children - ages 5, 6, and 10 - were asleep inside the car at a Mapco on Stewarts Ferry Pike when their mother went inside the station to pay for gas around 12:40 a.m. The mother left the keys in the ignition and the engine running and when she returned, her car - and children - were gone.

The woman immediately called police, who received another call about 20 minutes later reporting two men running away from an abandoned car. The children were inside and unharmed.

Surveillance footage from the station showed two men - one in a red hoodie, the other wearing a gray hoodie - getting into the woman's car and driving away.

Police continue to search for the suspects.

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