Baby abandoned on the side of the road found by Amazon driver

HOUSTON -- Residents of one Houston neighborhood are thanking an Amazon delivery driver for helping to find a baby that was abandoned after an apparent carjacking.

Police said they responded to a stolen car and kidnapping in the city's Sunnyside neighborhood on Monday.

Around the same time, a home surveillance camera captured a man leave a baby in a newborn carrier on the side of the road less than a mile away.

Amazon driver Juan Carlos Flores said he spotted the baby in the carrier and realized something wasn't right.

"When I saw that baby, I wanted to cry," he said.

He went to the nearest neighbor to ask if the baby was left outside.

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You need to meet Juan Carlos Flores, the delivery driver who spotted a newborn baby inside a carrier on the side of a north Houston street last week. The baby had been inside a vehicle that was stolen and the thief later abandoned the child.

The homeowner, who asked to remain nameless, told our sister station KTRK-TV that when he went outside, he saw the baby on the ground. He immediately took the car seat indoors, covered the baby, and called police.

"How could someone have a heart to leave the child on the side of the road?" Flores said.

Flores returned to his rounds then said he saw police who were searching for the baby nearby. He said he led officers back to the house where the neighbor was caring for the child.

Additional officers showed up on the scene nearly three minutes later and reunited the infant with the mother.

Police said the driver who dropped the baby off was believed to be the suspect of a carjacking.