A Florida father was captured on horrifying video Thursday bravely fighting off a creepy man who tried to kidnap his young child in broad daylight inside a Miami Beach pharmacy.
The kidnapping suspect, identified as Nicholas Starnaman, entered the CVS on Collins Avenue around 11:55 a.m., just as the 4-year-old boy and his parents were exiting the building.
When the boy’s mother came out the door, Stirnaman, 26, allegedly leaned forward and grabbed the child by the neck as she tried to pick him up and run from the store. According to WPLG.
While the woman pulled the child from the kidnapper’s hands, the quick-thinking father quickly grabbed Sternaman, the store’s surveillance video obtained by the station showed.
The boy fell to the ground while his father struggled with Stirnaman for several seconds, at one point ripping off the creep’s black jacket.
The boy’s mother picked him up from the ground as his father slammed the creep against the store’s glass door.
A crowd of bystanders began to form, and the enraged father retracted his arm in a clenched fist before appearing to exchange words with Stirnaman, who came out the door.
“Everyone was in shock because it was so fast. This guy just appeared out of nowhere,” says Zachary Jefferson. he told CBS Miami.
Stirnaman then fled the store, but was chased by the boy’s father and another shopper.
Miami Beach police arrested Sternaman three blocks away from the store, according to Local10.
The child was visibly shaking and was too scared to let go of her mother’s hand, CBS Miami reported, citing police.
Stirnaman was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault and battery of a child under 13, according to jail records.
He is being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Stirnaman had recently been arrested on petty theft charges dating back to early January, according to court records reviewed by the newspaper.
Shocking surveillance video captured an 11-year-old Arizona girl narrowly escaping a suspected kidnapping while walking to school last month.
The girl was heading to Sunset Elementary School in Glendale around 8 a.m. on Jan. 26 when the suspect, Joseph Leroy Lewis, stopped his car on the side of the sidewalk and began chasing her.
However, the fifth-grade girl noticed the man following her and began running and shouting for help.
Police said the suspected kidnapper briefly followed her, but then became scared and got back in his car and drove away.
