Video shows man snatch 3-year-old girl off Bronx street

New video shows the terrifying moment a stranger snatched a 3-year-old girl off a Bronx street as she walked with her grandmother Monday afternoon. Footage obtained by PIX11 News shows the man, wrapped in a blanket, walk up to grandma and her three grandchildren, then suddenly grab the toddler and run off with her. Police said it happened around 1:20 p.m. near East Tremont and Baisley avenues in the Pelham Bay neighborhood. The man, later identified as Santiago Salcedo, thankfully didn’t make it very far with the child. Good Samaritans intervened after spotting the man as he ran with the girl, authorities said. Fermin Bracero said he saw the attempted kidnapper scoop the child up in the blanket. He ran after the man outside a gas station in the area. “I went towards him cause the grandma was screaming, ‘he’s taking my little girl!’ The grandma was nervous. I thought it was a joke, like maybe they’re family, but it wasn’t,” Bracero said. Salcedo, 27, was initially able to get away, but was later arreste
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