Harrowing photos show what’s left of truck after fire chief swept away in floods
A desperate search was under way for a volunteer fire chief who disappeared when floodwaters swept away his emergency vehicle near Cow Creek in Texas Hill Country.
Past president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Gary Ludwig, said that Fire Chief Michael Phillips, of the Marble Falls Volunteer Fire Department, went missing early Saturday after being swept away by floodwaters while responding to a call near Cow Creek in Travis County, Texas, 50 miles from Austin, Texas.
“Chief Phillips was driving an emergency vehicle when he went missing late this morning,” Ludwig wrote in a post on Facebook.
“The vehicle has been found; however, the Chief has not been found with the vehicle, or anywhere else as of yet,” he continued.
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Harrowing images of Phillips’ truck show it completely smashed and covered in flood debris. Ludwig said Phillips was still missing as of Sunday evening.
The Burnet County Sheriff’s Office said that it is “actively searching for Phillips,” with the search area being focused on three distinct areas off FM 1431 between Faith Academy and the Cow Creek area, with an additional search underway north of US Highway 281 near Hamilton Creek in Burnet.
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“As of the time of this post, there are 5 known missing individuals, and we currently have recovered the remains of 3 individuals,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a post on their Facebook page Sunday evening.
During a news conference on Monday, Burnet County Sheriff Calvin Boyd emphasized that teams remain dedicated to the ongoing search until all missing individuals are located, KVUE reported.
Over the weekend, officials said intense flooding swept through the region, complicating their search operations and that continued rainfall has further damaged infrastructure, making it challenging for crews to reach lower-lying areas.
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Authorities noted that some methods of search—such as horseback or ATV patrols—are currently not viable due to hazardous conditions. Numerous low-water crossings and bridges remain in need of repair before emergency teams can fully access all affected locations.
According to his Facebook profile, Phillips has served as a volunteer fire chief since 1995.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Marble Falls Fire Department and the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office, but did not immediately receive a response.
On Monday, the White House said at least 91 people were killed in central Texas in flash flooding that began early on the morning of the Fourth of July.
The National Weather Service also issued multiple Flash Flood Warnings on Monday for counties in central Texas.
‘They need to leave’: Mayor demands end to Trump’s sweep as tensions boil over
Federal agents, accompanied by members of the National Guard, conducted an immigration raid in Los Angeles on Monday, prompting Mayor Karen Bass to heavily criticize the move, calling it “outrageous” and “un-American.”
The operation targeted an area near MacArthur Park, an area with a large immigrant population, in the city’s Westlake neighborhood, which is heavily Hispanic and has a heavy MS-13 influence.
U.S. Border Patrol agents were seen on horseback in the park and law enforcement and military-looking vehicles were stationed in the area. Fox Los Angeles reported that no arrests were made.
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Bass, who has been a vocal opponent of immigration raids in the city, appeared at the scene and demanded to speak with ICE leadership.
“They need to leave, and they need to leave right now. They need to leave because this is unacceptable!” Bass said at the scene.
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino told Fox News that he was the official on the phone with Bass, who demanded the raid be stopped.
“I don’t work for Karen Bass,” Bovino said. “Better get used to us now, because this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.”
Bass later vented on X, saying more than 20 kids were playing in the park before authorities showed up.
“Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through,” she wrote. “The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.”
“There is no plan other than fear, chaos, and politics,” she added. “Home Depot one day, a car wash the next, armed vehicles and what looked like mounted military units in a park the next day.”
“What happened to the criminals, the drug dealers, the violent individuals?” she asked. “Who were in the park today were children. It was their summer day camp. Those kids now have no activities. They were ushered inside so that they didn’t get exposed to the troops that were walking in formation across their playground area.”
Bass said she later met some of the children who were at the park at the time of the raid.
Protesters began showing up in the area, with reports of a tire on a federal vehicle being slashed and objects thrown at vehicles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Monday’s events at MacArthur Park a “message from the polluted heart” of President Donald Trump.
“I want folks to know that we have your back,” Newsom said at a press conference where he joined local and federal leaders to recognize six-month anniversary of Los Angeles wildfires. “We’ll continue to come back and do what we can to protect our diverse communities, to protect the spirit that defines the best of this city and out state and to push back against this cruelty that is being perpetuated by the president of the United States.”
Bass has called for the Trump administration to end immigration enforcement in her city, calling the operations “inhumane.”
“What is happening in Los Angeles is not normal. It is not normal to send in the National Guard without a request from the governor,” she wrote Sunday on X. “It is not normal to conduct indiscriminate raids on our immigrant population. Let LA return to normal. Get the National Guard out.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Bass’ office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A senior DHS official told Fox News Digital: “We don’t comment on ongoing enforcement operations.”
Opponents of the raids have accused federal agents of using heavy tactics to take illegal immigrants into custody.
Community leaders reported incidents of ICE appearing at elementary school graduations, disrupting the legitimate immigration processes at various courthouses, and aggressively raiding workplaces and locations like Home Depot, Fox Los Angeles reported.
The operations, perceived as arbitrary and invasive, sparked outrage among opponents, resulting in various large-scale demonstrations across Los Angeles County.
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In June, protesters rioted and clashed with authorities for several days amid outrage over immigration raids in the region. President Donald Trump federalized the National Guard and ordered the deployment of Marines to the city, leading to heavy criticism from local and state officials, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s SAT score revealed: report
After it was reported that democratic socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identified as “Asian” and “Black/African American” in his application to Columbia University, his SAT scores were revealed to be below the median score for students admitted into the school, according to a new report.
Independent journalist Christopher Rufo reported on Monday that, according to Mamdani’s full Columbia application, he scored 2140 out of 2400 on the SAT, which is below the median score of students admitted to the university in 2009.
A 2009 statement by the university said that students admitted into the Class of 2013 scored between 2110 and 2300 on the SAT, which would have placed Mamdani within the range but below the median.
Mamdani has said he identifies as “an American who was born in Africa,” and stated that checking multiple boxes was an effort to reflect his “complex background,” not to gain an advantage in the competitive admissions process.
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But at the time, Columbia, like many elite universities, used race-conscious admissions, a system the Supreme Court struck down in 2023.
Mamdani, who is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, identified as “Black or African American” on his 2009 Columbia University application even though he now says he does not consider himself Black, The New York Times reported Thursday.
According to The Times, the internal data came from a leaked database of past Columbia applications which was part of a recent hack targeting the Ivy League school.
Mamdani, then a high school senior, also checked “Asian” and reportedly wrote in “Ugandan” in the space for additional background. He was ultimately not accepted to Columbia even though his father is a professor at the elite school.
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“Even though these boxes are constraining,” Mamdani said, “I wanted my college application to reflect who I was.”
Mamdani told The Times that aside from those college forms, he doesn’t recall ever identifying as Black or African American.
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His parents are both of Indian descent. His father, Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani, has lived in East Africa for generations, but Mamdani said there had been no intermarriage in the family with native African groups.
Mamdani has leaned into his South Asian and Muslim identity on the campaign trail. During a June speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, he also stressed his African roots: “I was born in Kampala, Uganda… I was given my middle name, Kwame, by my father, who named me after the first Prime Minister of Ghana.”
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Mamdani has proposed a list of policy changes to radically alter New York City more in line with his democratic socialist vision. He is running to unseat incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was elected as a Democrat but is now running for re-election as an independent.
Former New York Democratic Mayor Andrew Cuomo is also running for mayor as an independent.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani and Columbia University for comment but did not receive a response prior to publication.
New book exposes Harris’ profane plea to governors after Biden debate disaster
Former Vice President Kamala Harris had a profane message for anxious Democratic governors uneasy about publicly supporting Joe Biden during the 2024 presidential campaign following his disastrous debate against current President Donald Trump, a new book reveals.
“This is about saving our f–king democracy,” Harris reportedly told the governors at a July 3, 2024, gathering at the White House after numerous officials expressed reservations about supporting Biden over concerns about his cognitive state.
The comment is revealed in the upcoming book 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, according to the New York Post.
Biden’s campaign was in freefall after the then-81-year-old president appeared tired and disoriented at the June 2024 presidential debate, his only debate against Trump.
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“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence, and I don’t think he knows what he said either,” Trump remarked at one point.
The June debate was held much earlier than presidential debates were traditionally held. According to the book, Biden’s aides persuaded him to hold the early debate, claiming doing so would allow him to act from a position of strength.
“By holding the first debate in the spring, YOU will be able to reach the widest audience possible, before we are deep in the summer months with the conventions, Olympics and family vacations taking precedence… In addition, the earlier YOU are able to debate the better, so that the American people can see YOU standing next to Trump and showing the strength of YOUR leadership, compared to Trump’s weakness and chaos,” a campaign memo, published by Politico, reportedly said.
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Biden’s performance created worries in the Democratic establishment that he would lose the election, and the 45th president began facing calls to drop out of the race. On July 10, 2024, the New York Times published an op-ed by the actor George Clooney urging Biden to exit the race. More Democratic politicians began to follow suit until Biden ultimately dropped out of the race on July 21, 2024. Harris succeeded him in the race, mounting a truncated roughly three-month-long campaign that ultimately failed.
Harris’ comments to the governors, made before Biden dropped out, were part of an effort to salvage his flailing candidacy. Following the meeting, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appeared in the White House driveway to voice their support for the president. Numerous high-profile Democratic governors, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer – all of whom were touted as possible replacements for Biden – did not appear to vouch for Biden in public. Walz was later tapped to be Harris’ running mate when she stepped into the race.
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Hochul claimed that all of the governors “pledged our support” for Biden, however, according to the book that claim wasn’t true and rankled the governors in attendance.
“Many of the governors were deeply skeptical that Biden could continue his campaign, and they were furious with Hochul for suggesting otherwise,” the book claimed.
NYC mayoral candidate’s threat to arrest Netanyahu gets brutal Trump response
After Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s leading mayoral candidate, pledged to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits the city, Netanyahu responded to questions about whether he’s worried.
In December, Mamdani, who identifies as a democratic socialist and is the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York City mayor, said, “as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“This is a city that our values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also,” Mamdani said, referring to the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant against Netanyahu as well as Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday evening to discuss a range of topics, including Iran and Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas.
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When asked whether he was worried about the possibility of facing arrest in America’s largest city, Netanyahu said, “I’m not concerned about that.”
The prime minister added, “I’m going to come there with the President Trump and we’ll see.”
He went on to say that Mamdani’s threat is “silly in many ways, because it’s just not serious.”
Trump also chimed in, saying, “We don’t know who the mayor is going to be yet, but this is a communist. He’s not a socialist. He’s a communist, and he’s said some really bad things about Jewish people.”
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“He might make it,” Trump said. “But, you know, it all comes through the White House. He needs the money through the White House. He needs a lot.
“He’s going to behave. He’ll behave. He better behave. Otherwise, he’s going to have big problems.”
Hearkening back to an earlier question asked by reporters, Netanyahu said, “what is serious” is whether there can be a two-state solution in Gaza that does not pose an existential threat to the Israeli people.
“Look, there’s enough craziness in the world, but I guess it never ends,” he said. “After October 7th, people said the Palestinians had a state, Hamas state in Gaza, and look what they did with it. They didn’t build it up. They built down two bunkers into terror tunnels, after which they massacred our people, raped our women, beheaded our men, invaded our cities and our towns and our kibbutzim and did horrendous, horrendous massacres, the kind of which we didn’t see since World War two and the Nazis, the Holocaust.”
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“So people aren’t likely to say, let’s just give them another state. It’ll be a platform to destroy Israel,” he added. “We’ll work up a peace with our Palestinian neighbors, those who don’t want to destroy us, and we’ll work out a peace in which our security, the sovereign power of security, always remains in our hands.”
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“Now, people will say it’s not a complete state. It’s not a state, it’s not that, we don’t care,” he said. “You know, we vowed, ‘never again.’ Never again is now, it’s not going to happen again.”
Bondi under siege after Justice Department reveals no Epstein client list
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing scrutiny for remarks she made this year about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case after the Department of Justice and FBI brought their Epstein inquiry to an abrupt close over the weekend.
The White House was grilled by reporters Monday about Bondi’s remarks, which appeared to contradict a memo the DOJ and FBI released earlier in the day stating that their Epstein review was complete and that they had nothing further to share with the public about it.
Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about Bondi apparently confirming in February that a nonpublic list of Epstein’s sex-trafficking clients existed.
“She was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork, all of the paper, in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, that’s what the attorney general was referring to, and I’ll let her speak for that,” Leavitt said.
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The question was a reference to Fox News’s John Roberts asking Bondi during a television interview if the DOJ planned to release a “list of Epstein’s clients.”
“It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” Bondi said at the time. “That’s been a directive by President Trump. I’m reviewing that.”
Asked for comment, a DOJ spokesperson pointed to Leavitt’s remarks and said the Trump administration has been more transparent than its predecessor.
“We’ve delivered more transparency in 6 months than the Biden administration did in 4 years,” the spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The newly released DOJ and FBI memo quashed theories about a nonpublic Epstein list, which was promoted for years by a vocal faction of Trump supporters, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino before they joined the bureau. The list was said to include names of powerful figures who were sexual predators associated with Epstein.
“This systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list,’” the memo read.
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Bondi first drew criticism in February after teasing the release of damaging evidence related to Epstein. The attorney general, however, failed to deliver any new information to the public and blamed the FBI’s New York field office for withholding “thousands of pages of documents” from her.
At the time, the Trump administration invited a group of right-wing social media influencers to the White House and gave them binders of what appeared to be a first look at the highly anticipated Epstein-related material.
Widely circulated photos showed the White House visitors smiling with the binders, which were labeled “classified” and the “Esptein Files: Phase 1.” The Epstein information, later published online, was largely a compilation of public court documents.
Some of the same influencers took to X to express incredulity over the new memo and call for Bondi’s replacement.
“I’m supposed to be on vacation, but it’s time to fire Pam Bondi,” Liz Wheeler wrote.
Mike Cernovich wrote that “nobody can even understand” why the FBI and DOJ put out the memo and that “everyone is p*****.”
Rogan O’Handley called the memo a “shameful chapter in our country’s history.”
In response to a question from another reporter, Leavitt said nonpublic material was too explicit to release.
“There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic, and it contained child pornography, which is not something that’s appropriate for public consumption,” Leavitt said.
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The DOJ and FBI’s memo also reiterated what the FBI and DOJ inspector general found in 2023, that Epstein died by suicide.
Following the botched rollout of the files, Bondi raised eyebrows once again by claiming to reporters in May that there were “tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn, and there are hundreds of victims.”
But public court filings and the newly released memo do not corroborate that statement. The memo stated, however, that “files relating to Epstein” included “ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography.”
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Epstein was indicted in 2019 for allegedly recruiting dozens of women and girls as young as 14 and engaging in sexual relations with them at his homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, and elsewhere. He allegedly sexually abused some of them.
Authorities confirmed that Epstein hanged himself in his prison cell in New York City in 2019, before he could stand trial. His associate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of conspiring to sexually abuse minors and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Star’s husband files for divorce, cites profitable OnlyFans career for spousal support
Denise Richards’ husband, Aaron Phypers, has filed for divorce after six years of marriage.
In the court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Phypers filed for divorce on Monday, citing their separation date as July 4. The “Wild Things” star and Phypers tied the knot in 2018 and do not share children.
Richards shares daughters, Sami, 20, and Lola, 19, with Charlie Sheen. She adopted her youngest daughter, Eloise, 13, on her own in 2011 after her divorce from Sheen.
Phypers cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the divorce and is seeking spousal support from Richards. According to court documents, Phypers said Richards makes over $250,000 per month from her OnlyFans career, her reality TV show and brand deals.
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He alleged in the filing that he has had no income in the last 12 months after closing his business.
Phypers says that the couple spends about $105,000 per month. He estimates that $20,000 is spent on clothes, $18,000 on rent, $10,000 on groceries, $8,000 on utilities, $15,000 on eating out and $15,000 on entertainment.
A representative for Richards did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Richards and Phypers put their marriage on display in Denise’s reality television show, “Denise Richards & Her Wild Things.”
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During an episode that aired in March, it was revealed that the star’s husband played a key role in the behind-the-scenes work of her OnlyFans page.
“I will say that I’m in the top 1% of creators on OnlyFans, so I am very grateful,” she said, via People. “It’s very empowering, especially for someone my age, that people still want to see me that way.”
OnlyFans is a subscription-based platform that allows creators to share and monetize their content, which can be explicit.
“He’s so supportive. He knows what men love, and he’ll go through all the photos and say, ‘This is good. Do this. This is what guys like.’”
Richards credited her husband for helping curate her risqué content, explaining, “He’s so supportive. He knows what men love, and he’ll go through all the photos and say, ‘This is good. Do this. This is what guys like.’”
She admitted that she had previous reservations about the adult content site. But once she dived into OnlyFans, she found the platform to be “quite lucrative.”
“When I joined OnlyFans, I was very concerned that I possibly could lose some jobs, but it was the opposite. I got more offers. I get roles where I’m like, the trophy wife or the sexy one.”
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Richards continued to debunk any misconceptions of OnlyFans and added that she enjoys engaging with her fans in a different way.
“People think that I’m just doing whatever — that’s not true,” she explained. “I actually look at it as a way of communicating with fans, and not the way that you’re thinking.”
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‘Hulk’ actor fumes at podcast host Joe Rogan for being surprised by ICE raids
Actor Mark Ruffalo knocked Joe Rogan for being “late” to criticize President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies in a social media post Sunday.
The “Avengers” star called out the popular podcast host after Rogan described ICE raids on workplaces as “insane” during a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“Dear Joe Rogan. It’s a little late now to pretend like Project 2025 didn’t exist and wasn’t the play book all along. You are either not that smart or not that dumb. It’s hard to tell at this point,” Ruffalo wrote on Instagram Threads.
Rogan, who endorsed Trump on the eve of the 2024 election and interviewed him during the campaign, criticized the president’s immigration raids at construction sites and other workplaces, during a conversation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad.
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“We were told there would be no — well, there’s two things that are insane,” Rogan said on the July 2 episode. “One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?”
Rogan did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Ruffalo’s remarks.
Trump announced last week that his administration was “working on” exemptions for laborers in the farming and hotel industries in response to concerns raised by farmers and hospital operators about losing valuable members of their workforce in the sweeping immigration raids.
Trump said workers who have spent years in the U.S. labor force, particularly in the agriculture and hospitality industries, may be eligible for a new type of work permit that would allow them to remain in the country legally, pay taxes and continue working but without receiving citizenship.
“We’re going to take care of our farmers and hotel workers, but we’re working on it right now. And Ron [DeSantis is] going to be involved,” Trump said last Tuesday during a tour of a new immigration detention camp in Florida’s Everglades that is surrounded by alligators, “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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“They can be here legally. They can pay taxes and everything. They’re not getting citizenship, but they get other things. And the farmers need them to do the work,” Trump said. “Without those people, you’re not going to be able to run your farm.”
Ruffalo, an outspoken progressive activist born in the U.S., rallied against the administration’s immigration policies at a “No Kings” protest in New York City on June 14, where he wore a hat with the word “immigrant” emblazoned on it and made various statements about the value of immigrants to America.
The actor claimed that Trump and conservatives are scapegoating migrants for the problems created by America’s majority population and billionaires.
“Well, we’re seeing what’s happening. First of all, we’re understanding that the immigrants aren’t the criminals. If you look at the statistics, most of the crimes committed in this country are by White people — non-immigrants,” he told activist group New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) at the rally.
He also called on people to come together to “take our country back” from billionaires.
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‘He just grabbed him up’: Family stops terrifying child snatching on busy street
A would-be kidnapper who took a 6-year-old off a busy Brooklyn street on Sunday night abandoned his alleged plan when the screaming child’s parents chased him, according to video footage of the incident.
The 36-year-old suspect was seen grabbing the boy with one arm just before 10 p.m. in Coney Island, an iconic entertainment and residential area, according to video footage taken by Freedom News TV.
He carried the screaming boy several feet before the child’s parents chased the suspect, who dropped the boy as he fled.
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Nora Smiles, who calls herself “The Sneaker Lady” and whose shop is right next to the scene, told Freedom News TV that the boy was trailing his parents moments before the incident.
“So a man came, and he was trying to cut him off. Then the little boy was trying to spin off of him,” she said. “The man just grabbed him up and started running with the little boy.”
Once the parents gave chase, the suspect dropped the child to the ground and ran into an intersection, the video shows.
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“The parents just chased after the guy, and they caught him,” Smiles said. “It was just shocking. I’m a mother myself, so… we all ran over to see what happened.”
Smiles, who isn’t from the area, said locals were familiar with the suspect.
During the incident, police officers responded quickly and arrested the suspect, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital.
The boy — whose family is from Queens — complained of minor pain and was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, according to the New York Post.
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