Carjacker's Gun Jams, Saving Victim's Life

Two men who were heading home from a Hammond, Ind. casino Saturday are happy to be alive after a carjacker's gun jammed--saving their lives.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that two men were leaving the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind. when four men jumped them on Chicago's Far South Side and ordered them at gunpoint to lie down in the street. After a gunman's hood slipped, revealing his face to one of the victims, he allegedly attempted to fire his weapon at the the men several times, but the gun would not fire.

As one victim, Steve Bader, pleaded for his life, the gunman continually tried to fix his jammed weapon. After realizing the gun was not working, NBC Chicago reports that the gunman fled on foot, and his accomplices took off with Bader's Mercedes Benz E-class sedan and a getaway vehicle.

Police spotted Rondell Agee, 23, driving the Mercedes later Saturday, and he was identified as the carjacker with the jammed weapon.

Agee, of Coralville, Iowa, was charged with two counts of vehicular hijacking and ordered held on $500,000 bail Sunday.

“If the gun had worked we’d both be dead,” Bader's cousin, who was with him that night, told the Sun-Times. “We’re still shaken up.”