KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police officers with guns drawn swarmed a Kansas City college student’s back porch on Wednesday morning, inching toward his garage in search of a carjacking suspect with a gun.

It’s a moment the shocked student captured with his smartphone camera, then shared on Twitter.

“It’s something that doesn’t happen very often,” Rockhurst University senior Thomas Cargile said.

“Just to capture the moment and be able to share it with my friends and prove that I wasn’t completely lying,” he chuckled of the picture that’s now been shared and favorited dozens of times on Twitter.

Cargile was on the phone for a job interview with an accounting firm when he heard a loud crash outside his home.

“I’m hearing a ton of sirens, and then I hear another bang,” he said, “and so I just kind of just go down the stairs and I see about seven police officers out on my patio, and so I hung up the phone and I was like, ‘What’s going on?’”

Officers told him three people had held a driver at gunpoint and stolen a car. A police chase followed, and the suspects crashed the car into a residential fence next door.

The crooks bailed and took off running, with one of them seeking a good hiding place in Cargile’s garage.

“They tried to open the garage door and I told them that it’s always unlocked,” he said. “So I went and got the keys, unlocked it for them and they brought a dog in and probably five to six people went in to look for him because there’s a bunch of nooks in there.”

Police eventually discovered the man had used a chair to lift himself up and was crouched near an opening in the garage’s attic space.

“They finally got him and were able to get him down and catch him,” Cargile said.

Police said they had three people in handcuffs within 20 minutes of the carjacking, but no charges have been filed yet.

As for his Twitter picture, Cargile said it is proof for his friends that the police chase ended in his backyard.

“I guess it kind of shows how social media has changed the thought process of a lot of kids today,” he said.

He even got a response from the Kansas City, Mo., police Twitter account apologizing for the impromptu intrusion, and updating him that all the armed carjacking suspects were in custody.

As for his job interview, “I explained what happened and he got a good laugh out of it and said, ‘That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard during a job interview,’” Cargile said of his potential future employer’s reaction.

It’s an unbelievable story Cargile said you just have to see to believe – and now can, on Twitter.

“I’ve had some good stories being in college over the past few years,” he said, “but this is definitely up there as one of the craziest.”