"I thought, 'We're going to die either way.'"

These are the words of Elsya, the 24-year-old mother who along with her 20-month-old son was carjacked from a West Baltimore gas station (video above) Wednesday night. She managed to escape with her child Julius by jumping from the moving car during a police chase on the Washington Beltway.

Thursday night, she spoke with reporter Steve Kilar:

“I don’t know what his motive was,” Elsya said. The rest of the incident, she said, is a blur.

After shoving the woman into the backseat, he sped off, she said.

She remembers him breaking the driver’s side window with his elbow. He wagged his tongue at her and muttered “nasty stuff,” she said. She said he threatened to kill her when he realized she had a cellphone, which he threw out the window.

Finally, on the Beltway near Rockville, police said, the driver slowed and the 24-year-old woman seized the opportunity. She opened the door and jumped onto the pavement, her toddler firmly in her arms.

“I thought I was going to suffocate him, as tight as I was holding him,” said Elsya.