NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio— A grandmother said a disheveled man tried to kidnap her four-year-old grandson from the South Central Spray Park in North Ridgeville Thursday afternoon.
"Thirty seconds more and I wouldn't have a grandson," grandmother Kriss Coventry said.
Coventry said she was with her two grandchildren at the park just before 2:30 p.m.. While she was on a bench helping her granddaughter set a woolybear free, when she noticed her grandson missing.
"My grandson managed to get out of the gate. And there was a man standing there two house people told me. Standing there just observing the children and he walked off with my grandson," Coventry said.
The grandmother said by the time she noticed her grandson was gone the man had already walked about the length of a football field with the boy.
"He got all the way to the hill when I noticed him." said Coventry. "I screamed 'Help!' and he looked and then I yelled "Robbie!". And Robbie, like, wiggled right out of his hands and rolled out of him," Coventry said.
Coventry called the North Ridgeville Police Department, which is right next to the park.
"We responded with several different officers, stopped a couple different citizens but we didn't locate anyone that matched the suspect or anyone that was wearing similar clothing or anything like that," said North Ridgeville Police Dept. Sgt. Adam Freas.
Police said there were between 50 to 100 people at the park when it happened, but they have not been able to find any other eyewitnesses, other than the boy's grandmother.
Police want anyone who saw the suspicious man to call them.
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"Thirty seconds more and I wouldn't have a grandson," grandmother Kriss Coventry said.
Coventry said she was with her two grandchildren at the park just before 2:30 p.m.. While she was on a bench helping her granddaughter set a woolybear free, when she noticed her grandson missing.
"My grandson managed to get out of the gate. And there was a man standing there two house people told me. Standing there just observing the children and he walked off with my grandson," Coventry said.
The grandmother said by the time she noticed her grandson was gone the man had already walked about the length of a football field with the boy.
"He got all the way to the hill when I noticed him." said Coventry. "I screamed 'Help!' and he looked and then I yelled "Robbie!". And Robbie, like, wiggled right out of his hands and rolled out of him," Coventry said.
Coventry called the North Ridgeville Police Department, which is right next to the park.
"We responded with several different officers, stopped a couple different citizens but we didn't locate anyone that matched the suspect or anyone that was wearing similar clothing or anything like that," said North Ridgeville Police Dept. Sgt. Adam Freas.
Police said there were between 50 to 100 people at the park when it happened, but they have not been able to find any other eyewitnesses, other than the boy's grandmother.
Police want anyone who saw the suspicious man to call them.
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