🚨 SICKENING CARJACK IN NYC — WITH A BLIND MAN STILL INSIDE 🚗💔 A 72-year-old blind grandfather was unknowingly kidnapped when a crook jumped into his son’s idling car outside Target and drove off — with the elderly man still sitting inside. He didn’t scream. He didn’t fight back. He didn’t even know he was being stolen. The car was later dumped miles away, the victim shaken but unharmed — while the suspect vanished. How does something like this happen in plain sight… and who leaves a blind senior trapped in a crime like this?

An elderly blind man was taken for an unwanted joyride in Long Island City when a crook jumped into his son’s idling car and drove off with him — leaving him unaware he was being carjacked, cops and kin said.

The 72-year-old man’s son had parked the Subaru and left his father inside the idling car while the 34-year-old ran inside a Target near the intersection of 44 Drive and 23 Street in Queens round 7:15 p.m. Saturday, cops and law-enforcement sources said.

A criminal then jumped into the vehicle and sped off, taking the old man along with him, cops said.

It was reported to police that on Saturday, January 17, 2026, at approximately 1913 hours, in the vicinity of 44 Drive and 23 Street, a 34-year-old male victim had parked his 2016 Subaru with the engine idling with a 72-year-old male passenger in the backseat. As the victim entered a commercial establishment, an unidentified individual entered the vehicle and drove away. Shortly after, the vehicle and 72-year-old occupant were later found in the vicinity of 53 Avenue and 44 Street, within the confines of the 108 Precinct.
A 72-year-old blind man was waiting in a Subaru while his son ran into Target in Long Island City Saturday when this man allegedly carjacked the vehicle with the senior citizen inside.NYPD
Multiple NYPD officers patrol a city street at night.
His son left him in an idling Subaru outside a Target in Long Island City, cops said.

“He was in the car, but he’s blind — he didn’t know what was happening,” said the elderly victim’s wife, who asked not to be named, to The Post. “He didn’t complain because he’s not really aware.”

The wife said the car thief didn’t speak a word to her husband when the pair roared off, which left him confused.

“He’s calling my son, but nobody answered,” she said.

1/18/26 Real estates of the Target department store in Long Island City. (pictured) A 72 year old blind man was sitting in his son's car in front of this Target store, waiting for his son to return to the vehicle, when a perpetrator jumped into the car and took it for a joyride. The father is named Reynaldo Tupas, and the son's name is Michael Tupas. The car and father were found several block away, and the man was unharmed. It is not clear if the car was damaged. 25-01 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY. Please credit Gregory P. Mango. New York Post in house.
The car was idling outside a Target near the intersection of 44 Drive and 23 Street in Long Island City when the carjacking happened.Gregory P. Mango
A man in a hat talking to a police officer looking at items on a table, seen through a window.
The stolen car and the elderly man were later found unharmed nearly 3 miles away in Maspeth.

When the woman’s son left Target and got back to where he’d parked the car, he was immediately “worried” to see that his father and car missing, and he called the police, she said.

“He left his dad in the car, and once he came back, it’s gone,” the wife said. “The car was gone, and my husband was gone, too. [The crook] took it away.”

The stolen car and its geriatric passenger were later found dumped nearly three miles away, at the intersection of 53 Avenue and 44 Street, in an industrial part of Maspeth, cops said. The elderly man was unhurt.

“They must go to jail. What they did was not right,” the man’s wife said of the thief, who is still in the wind.