by: Nicole Carr Updated: Sep 5, 2016 - 8:59 AM 
 
 ATLANTA - A father and his daughters are safe after someone carjacked him at the gas pump in northwest Atlanta. 
 
 Lester Chaney says fear quickly set in when he was forced to watch someone driving off with his 1-year-old twin girls. 
 
 "I ran to unlock the door, but the door was locked or whatever and the guy took off," Chaney said. 
 
 The carjacking happened Saturday night at a Texaco gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in southwest Atlanta. 
 
 Chaney says the gas pump he tried to use wouldn't read his card. 
 
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 "I started making my way up to the store," Chaney said. 
 
 Chaney admits he left his car running. 
 
 Surveillance video shows Chaney walking back to his car when someone takes off with his Toyota Camry. 
 
 The car has Chaney's twin daughters, Nadia and McKenzie, in the backseat. 
 
 "I was just hoping they were going to be alright," Chaney said. 
 
 A short time later, police say, they found the girls a quarter of a mile away after the suspect ditched the car in the parking lot of an apartment complex. 
 
 Police say when they arrived McKenzie was in her car seat in the back of the vehicle, and Nadia was removed from the car and dumped in a wooded area. 
 
 Police said the girls slept through the entire incident. 
 
 © 2016 Cox Media Group. ||||| A father of twin one-year-olds got the scare of his life this weekend after he stopped to fuel up at a gas station in northwest Atlanta. 
 
 Lestor Chaney says fear quickly set in when he was forced to watch someone driving off with his one-year-old twin girls, reports WSB-TV, a local ABC affiliate. 
 
 "I ran to unlock the door, but the door was locked or whatever and the guy took off," Chaney said. 
 
 The carjacking took place Saturday night at a Texaco gas station after Chaney says his card wouldn't work at the gas pump and he went inside to pay. 
 
 Chaney admits he left his car running, according to WSB-TV. 
 
 Surveillance video shows a man running toward the car, quickly slipping inside and taking off in a hurry in Chaney's Toyota Camry. 
 
 It wasn't clear if the man knew about Chaney's twin daughters, Nadia and McKenzie, who were sleeping in the backseat. 
 
 "I was just hoping they were going to be alright," Chaney told WSB-TV. 
 
 Police found the girls a quarter of a mile away after the suspect ditched the car in the parking lot of an apartment complex. 
 
 McKenzie was in her car seat in the back of the vehicle, and Nadia was removed from the car and dropped in a wooded area, according to WSB-TV. 
 
 Police said the girls slept through the entire incident.
– As he came out of an Atlanta gas station Saturday night after paying for his fill-up, Lestor Chaney was overwhelmed with a feeling no parent ever wants to experience: complete fear, ABC News reports. Chaney tells WSB (which spells his first name "Lester") he went inside the Texaco to pay after his card wouldn't go through at the pump, and when he emerged, he saw a man hopping into his Toyota Camry and speeding off. But it wasn't just his car being stolen that stopped his heart—it was the fact that his twin 1-year-old girls, Nadia and McKenzie, were inside. "I ran to unlock the door, but the door was locked or whatever and the guy took off," he says (ABC News has the surveillance footage that shows that terrifying moment). It's not known if the carjacker was aware of the babies snuggled in their car seats in the back when he boosted the Camry, but it would appear not, as the car and the girls were found, uninjured, by cops about a quarter-mile away in the parking lot of an apartment complex. McKenzie was still dozing off in her car seat in the car, and Nadia, who had been taken out of the car and placed in a wooded area, was still snoozing as well. Chaney, who admits he left the car running when he went inside to pay, is now breathing a huge sigh of relief. "I was just hoping they were going to be alright," he says. (This mom made a literal leap of faith when her car was carjacked with her kids inside.)