ECHO PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Authorities are searching for a suspect and an Audi SUV he stole after assaulting and trying to abduct an elderly man in Echo Park.
The suspect is said to have broken into the 73-year-old victim's garage, grabbed the victim's cellphone and then thrown him in the back of his own car in the 2000 block of Park Drive.
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The elderly man was able to jump out of the backseat before the suspect sped off with his car.
Authorities described the suspect as a man in his 20s.
A garage and home is shown in an Echo Park neighborhood. (KABC)