“I’m glad she knew how to fight back,” the girl’s mother, Teshia McGill, said
A 6-year-old girl bravely fought off a man who tried to kidnap her outside the child’s Miami apartment building, according to police.
The youngster, identified as Ah’lyric, and her siblings were playing in the courtyard of their complex on Thursday when they noticed a white Range Rover parked nearby, according to an arrest report obtainedThe other children went inside, but Ah’lyric stayed outside on the stairway and a man, later identified as Leonardo Venegas, 32, grabbed her arm, she told police.
She tried to free herself from his grasp, but as she fought back he picked her up and tried to carry her away, cops said.“I bit him,” Ah’lyric, told NBC South Florida Monday. She said she learned the defense tactic from her mother.“I’m glad she knew how to fight back,” mother Teshia McGill told the outlet.
The frightening ordeal was captured on security camera. The footage allegedly shows Venegas get out of the white Range Rover and walk toward the building. Moments later, he is seen running from the scene back to his car.He told police he had been in the area looking for houses to buy, but the complex is HUD housing and there are no “for sale” signs, police noted in their report.
When he was asked why he was running away from the apartment complex, he told cops he had heard someone screaming. He requested an attorney when investigators asked about his interaction with the girl.Venegas was arrested in Miami-Dade County on Sunday and charged with kidnapping and child abuse.“This is a case that has us extremely worried, concerned, something that’s not very common,” Miami Police Capt. Freddie Cruz told NBC South Florida. “Luckily we were able to apprehend this individual.
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