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Police: 10-year-old boy fights off man dragging him behind house

Police are looking for a man who is suspected of trying to kidnap a 10-year-old boy from his home on Tuesday afternoon.

 

GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- Police are looking for a man who is suspected of trying to kidnap a 10-year-old boy from his home on Tuesday afternoon.

According to police, the attempted kidnapping happened around 4 p.m. when the child was taking a booster seat out to his mother’s vehicle. The suspect approached him from behind.

"I was thinking my brothers were just playing around," the victim, Sebastian Solache said. "But no, I see a white guy but I know it's not my brothers - my brothers are darker."

The man grabbed Sebastian and began dragging him toward the back of an adjacent home, but the child fought back so much that the suspect let him go after a short distance. After he hit the man, little Sebastian ran inside to tell his mom what happened. He was still shaking.

"I said, 'Mommy, some guy just tried to take me'," he said. "She said where. I said where and I said right here in front of the house."

She immediately called 911 urging the dispatcher to send someone quickly.

Luckily, Sebastian only had a few minor scrapes and bruises in the incident. But the emotions his mom saw that day she may never forget.

"I don't think, as a mother, I've ever seen him with that expression on his face," she said. "So much fear."

It was fear first brought on by the murder of his grandmother just 2 years before. Now she felt it again on Tuesday afternoon.

"The emotions that I had before, I feel now that it's actually happening to me in my home," Arana said. "You know, you can never - you don't know what you're going to do, you don't know how to react, how am I going to defend myself, how somebody can do this to us - to a kid."

Police and K9 teams tracked the suspect to the area of Roy Cagle Road in Hall County, but eventually lost the trail. The suspect is described as a white male who was about 6 feet tall. He had a medium build and was wearing black jeans, a white shirt and had his face covered with a black cloth.

Police do not have a sketch of the suspect.

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