7:00PM EST: A young child was almost abducted in the heart of Williamsburg at approximately 5:45PM Wednesday afternoon.
Williamsburg Shomrim tell YWN that a Chasidish man approached a 4-year-old child waiting for his mother outside a store on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Penn Street. The man apparently asked the child a question or two, and then grabbed his hand and started forcing him to walk towards Williamsburg Street. The child started fighting the man, and a woman passerby who saw what was happening ran in the store and told the mother. She ran outside, and upon seeing the mother, the abductor let the child go and fled the location.
Dozens of Williamsburg Shomrim and NYPD were dispatched, and a manhunt is currently underway. The man is approximately 35-years-old, has long Peyos, had a plastic ''rain protector'' over his hat, a shopping bag in one hand, and a laptop-bag slung over his shoulder.
Additionally, YWN had learned that the incident was recorded on the stores video surveillance cameras, and detectives are currently analyzing it.
(YW-104 / YW-112)
