A brazen would-be kidnapper briefly scooped up a 6-year-old boy from a busy Coney Island sidewalk Sunday evening – solely to let him unfastened as soon as the screaming baby’s mother and father have been sizzling on his tail, based on cops and wild video.
The 36-year-old creep – seen carrying all black, together with a bizarrely tall black hat – grabbed the boy simply earlier than 10 p.m. close to the nook of Stillwell and Surf avenues, police mentioned.
The sicko pounced on the kid as he began trailing off behind his mother and father, based on witness Nora Smiles, often known as “The Sneaker Lady,” whose store is true subsequent to the scene.
“So a man came and he was trying to cut him off, then the little boy was trying to spin off of him,” Smiles informed FREEDOMNEWS TV.
“The man just grabbed him up and started running with the little boy,” she mentioned.
The boy screamed and referred to as out for his mother because the fiend scooped him up in a single arm – prompting each mother and father to right away spring into motion, video obtained by FREEDOMNEWS exhibits.
As soon as the menace noticed the 2 adults lunging towards him, he threw the boy to the bottom and high-stepped out of there, the clip exhibits.
However the suspect didn’t make it far, with each mother and father chasing him into the road as a number of vehicles handed via the intersection, based on the video.
“The parents just chased after the guy and they caught him,” Smiles mentioned.
Police assigned to a close-by submit chased the creep down and arrested him, sources mentioned. Fees have been pending as of Monday morning.
“It was just shocking,” Smiles mentioned. “I’m a mother myself so I ran over – we all ran over to see what happened.”
The boy – whose household is from Queens – complained of minor ache and was taken to Coney Island Hospital, the place he was listed in steady situation.
