CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A stick-shift prevented four teens from stealing a woman’s car at gunpoint.

The 37-year-old woman told police that the teens approached her about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday as she arrived with her child at their home on Wakefield Avenue near West 65th Street in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.

The four unidentified teens approached woman moments after she parked her 2004 Toyota Corolla on the street. One of them pulled out a gun, but concealed with a plastic bag, the police report says.

They demanded the woman’s keys, but she told them her child was still in the car. They let her take her child out of the car and tried to start the car for about a minute before they gave up and ran away, the police report says.

The woman’s husband saw the attempted carjacking from their home. He jumped in his own car and followed the robbers, who boarded an RTA train at the West 65th Street rapid station, the police report says.

RTA transit police could not locate the robbers.

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