Security footage purportedly shows a homeless man in St. Louis, Missouri, committing multiple violent acts before attempting to kidnap a baby from a woman’s arms.
The nine o’clock video. A man strikes a woman while she is strolling down the street with her 11-month-old child in her arms on a Sunday morning. The spouse drove the man away after attacking him, and witnesses could be seen dialing 911.
Afterwards, the individual was recognized by police as Anthony McGee, 19, who they claimed had committed other violent acts that day.
Prior to the attempted kidnapping, McGee allegedly attacked a woman with a glass bottle, according to investigators.
He absconded from the attempted kidnapping and then attacked and broke the arms of an additional woman, who was eighty-two. According to the police, videos proved that he choked her for almost a minute.
Speaking with KMOV-TV, a lady who witnessed the attack from her apartment at Hawthorne Apartments described what she saw.
“I heard a woman screaming,” the woman uttered. “I noticed the woman through the window, and she was being held and restrained by a man.”
She claimed that as he attempted to leave the area, police arrived and apprehended him.
The Central West End Neighborhood Security Initiative’s Jim Whyte claims that police were receiving footage from the group’s local cameras to aid in their investigation.
“We briefly interacted with him regarding an earlier incident. This young man looks to be homeless, so our homeless outreach team has reached out to him several times in an attempt to receive resources, Whyte said.
First-degree assault, kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree assault and armed criminal action, third-degree assault, fourth-degree assault, and resisting arrest were among the numerous charges brought against McGee.
Two weeks before the most recent incident, the man had previously been taken into custody by Clayton police on suspicion of assaulting a female student at Washington University. In that instance, he was charged with a misdemeanor and then freed.
