A 13-year-old Pennsylvania lady was kidnapped from her house in the midst of the evening, and, utilizing video surveillance footage, authorities have been capable of find the sufferer in addition to the suspect in New York Metropolis, police stated.
At 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Studying police obtained a name from a mom who reported her daughter lacking from their house. She advised officers she final noticed her daughter in her bed room at 10:30 p.m. the evening earlier than, Chief Richard Tornielli stated at a press convention on Thursday.
Tornielli stated police subsequently seen house surveillance footage from round 2 a.m Wednesday that confirmed a person along with his head lined by a sheet enter the lady's house. Cameras then captured the lady strolling out of the home, with the person behind her. He carried the lady to a automobile and put her within the backseat, police stated.
Police recognized Duane Taylor, the mom's ex-boyfriend, as a suspect.
On Wednesday afternoon, police issued a statewide Amber Alert for the teenager, and went to Taylor's house, positioned in New York Metropolis's Brooklyn neighborhood, the place they arrested him. The lady, nonetheless, was not there.
Some time later, she was discovered strolling down a avenue in Brooklyn. She had approached an individual on the street and advised them she had been kidnapped, Tornielli stated. She was taken to an area hospital for statement earlier than being reunited along with her mom.
Taylor is believed to be the one suspect within the incident, the police chief stated. He stays in custody whereas authorities proceed their investigation.
"We cant have people like this in our metropolis, terrorizing our metropolis and traumatizing our residents," Tornielli stated.
Tornielli thanked the a number of companies who responded to the kidnapping, together with the FBI and the NYPD, for his or her help within the case, and provided his ideas and prayers to the lady and her household.
"I wish to lengthen my appreciation to the household for his or her cooperation that they prolonged to us all through the investigation and lengthen our ideas and our prayers to the sufferer and her household," he stated. "She's been by a really traumatic expertise, the entire household has, the group has, and we simply hope and pray they can get by this with out an excessive amount of extra trauma."