On Saturday, just after noon, police responded to a call of assault with a deadly weapon Pine Ave. and 10th St. which was called determined to be an attempted kidnapping.
An initial investigation found that two adults and a baby were approached by an armed woman while walking down the street.
“It was about noon on Saturday when two women were walking their baby girl in a stroller here on Pine and 10th Street in Long Beach when a woman with a gun walked up to them,” said Richard Mejía, spokesperson for Long Beach Police.
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The suspect pointed the firearm at one of the victims and demanded the baby, according to one witness.
Isabel Santiago, who was nearby, heard the women screaming for help and witnessed the attempted kidnapping.
“(The suspect) pulled the gun out and said, ‘give me the baby girl’, but the woman could not because the baby was buckled in”, said Santiago.
Long Beach police immediately got detectives working to find the man and woman and tracked them down to the 400 block of south Occidental Avenue in Los Angeles, where both were arrested for felony kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon.
They arrested 55-year-old Stacie Earnestine Wilson, a resident of the city of LA, and 45-year-old Walter Keshone Sullivan also a resident of LA.
Wilson and Sullivan are both being held at Long Beach City jail on $100,000 bail.
No injuries were reported.
A motive for the attempted kidnapping is still under investigation.
