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BREMEN, Ga. (KTLA) -- A 7-year-old girl was able to escape a would-be kidnapper at a Walmart store.
Store surveillance video captured images of a man identified by police Thomas A. Woods grabbing Brittney Baxter in the toy department of the store.
Brittney was looking at toys while her mom shopped in another section of the store.
The second-grader was able to struggle and screamed.
“I was screaming and kicking and trying to get away and he put his hand over my mouth,” Brittney said in an interview after the incident occurred.
Woods, 25, quickly dropped her and bolted from the store.
Surveillance cameras outside the store captured Woods getting into his car.
Police had him in custody less than an hour later.
Police said Woods was released from state prison in October after serving four years for a 2004 conviction for voluntary manslaughter.
Woods denied being in Walmart.
“I didn’t bother nobody, I was never there,” he told reporters after his arrest.
Woods was later charged with attempted kidnapping and is being held at the Haralson County Jail.
Store surveillance video captured images of a man identified by police Thomas A. Woods grabbing Brittney Baxter in the toy department of the store.
Brittney was looking at toys while her mom shopped in another section of the store.
The second-grader was able to struggle and screamed.
“I was screaming and kicking and trying to get away and he put his hand over my mouth,” Brittney said in an interview after the incident occurred.
Woods, 25, quickly dropped her and bolted from the store.
Surveillance cameras outside the store captured Woods getting into his car.
Police had him in custody less than an hour later.
Police said Woods was released from state prison in October after serving four years for a 2004 conviction for voluntary manslaughter.
Woods denied being in Walmart.
“I didn’t bother nobody, I was never there,” he told reporters after his arrest.
Woods was later charged with attempted kidnapping and is being held at the Haralson County Jail.
