Officials said a 24-year-old New York man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of attempting to kidnap a 5-year-old boy in Queens.
Pomonok’s James McGonagle was charged with attempted kidnapping, reckless harm, and acts of harming children in connection with the incident in Richmond Hill on Thursday. New York Post Reported, quoted statement From the New York Police Department.
McGonagall’s alleged accomplice has not yet been arrested.The accused accomplice can be Surveillance video The New York Police Department announced an elderly bald man who was wearing jeans, an orange polo shirt and sunglasses when he was with McGonagall.
The video of the incident showed that the 5-year-old boy Jacob Diaz (Jacob Diaz) was running on Hillside Avenue (Hillside Avenue) near Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Mountain. Before Dolores Diaz and his siblings, New York Daily News Report.
When the boy passed a chestnut four-door sedan parked nearby, a man got out of the car and caught the child. The man ran with the boy and put him in the back seat of the car.
The boy’s mother, his 9-year-old brother Benny, and his 8-year-old sister Zuriely took swift action and managed to rescue the child through the open passenger window before the car started and accelerated.
According to the police, there was also a man in his 50s in the passenger seat at the time of the incident.
The boy’s mother told the police that she had never seen the two suspects and did not know why they wanted to take her son away. When the incident occurred, Diaz and her children were visiting her husband on their way to work.
McGonagall was identified as a suspect by the police in the video for an unrelated incident at Brookdale Hospital. ABC7 New York Report, citing unnamed sources.
According to reports, the suspect was treated in the hospital and detained. The police said the suspect is being evaluated in the hospital.
After the incident, the boy’s mother told witnesses in Spanish on Friday: “You must do what is necessary anyway.” “The car is just parked there. I never thought that a man would get out of the car. Grab my son. You must always pay attention to your surroundings, not playing with your phone.”
According to media reports, after the incident, the little boy appeared to be fine and was playing video games. However, his mother said that the incident had traumatized her three children.
She said: “Mothers must treat their children carefully.” “Always hold their hands when walking with them, because there are many evil people, and you never know who is nearby.”
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