
Denver Police say the child was upset after being suspended from school so he took his aunt's white Suburban outside a LEAP office and took it for a joyride just before 11:30 a.m.
The boy's aunt, Christian Hart, says her nephew told her he was going out to the car to get his notebook so he could write an apology letter.
Instead, police say the boy stole the car and crashed into a silver pickup around 28th and Welton, pushing it over the RTD light rail tracks and up on the sidewalk. They say he continued driving on the light rail tracks, before hitting a red vehicle with three people inside of it head-on around 29th and Welton, ending his joyride.
Ervin Wheeler was busy loading his silver truck when the boy came barreling through the neighborhood.
"I was loading bookcases into the back of my pickup truck and I just loaded two and I went back in to the front of the house to get the third one, and I heard a loud impact and I looked up and I saw my truck being pushed - just being pushed," Wheeler said, trying to hold back a chuckle.
"I shouldn't laugh because it's not funny," Wheeler continued. "But, it was just going and there was a vehicle on the back of it that was pushing it, and when I ran to the door, I saw my truck up on the sidewalk, and the other vehicle kept going. And someone was shouting 'Get the license number,' and I couldn't get the license number. I just looked at my truck and I was in shock."
Wheeler says he hopes his truck still runs.
Police were questioning the boy in the back of a police car, but did not release his name due to his age.
It was not immediately known if there were any injuries, but there was extensive property damage.
