Roxanna Ramirez Helps Solve Target kidnapping Case (PHOTO)

Roxanna Ramirez Target kidnapping

Antioch, California – Roxanna Ramirez works for Target as a loss prevention specialist, and it’s her duty to be suspicious when others see no cause for it. Her diligence has paid off in leading to the successful return of a little 7-year-old girl who was abducted by a 43-year-old man earlier in the day.

It was nearly 10:00AM this past Friday when she noticed a strange man enter the store. He was 43-year-old David Douglas and he was carrying a backpack. Ramirez used security cameras to track him throughout the store and into the parking lot. He lingered in and around his car for hours. She noticed that he changed his clothes and at one point began violently shaking the steering wheel of his car in a fit of anger. Just prior to lunch, she took down his license plate. Upon her return, he had disappeared.

‘What she did was what truly broke the case,’ said Antioch police Lt. Tammany Brooks.

Hours later her friend notified her of an amber alert for the abduction of a 7-year-old girl and she recognized the vehicle & assailant description from the man she had been observing. She quickly fed the information to police who arrived at Douglas’ home and found the little girl.

“I was like, “Hold on …” This was the guy in the store. He looked like that, and that matched the car description,” she told the Times.

She is now safe and sound with her family. Douglas is currently in police custody pending a $4 million bond.

In a jailhouse interview with the Huff Post, Douglas called the kidnapping “a cry for help,” according to CBS News.

“At the moment police caught him at the Anitoch Marina, Douglas said, he was telling the little girl that he was an angel, and was awaiting further instructions from God.”

Douglas said he targeted a number of big department stores and followed three different children. He says he grabbed seven-year-old Natalie Calvo because she was the easiest.

“I actually just walked up to her and she came with me relatively easy, I mean, I appeared to be someone who could be familiar to her, you know, with her ethnicity,’ he told ABC News from jail.

“So I just sort of put my hands out, and she was kind of startled but she put her hand out and she just, kind of, came with me. And then she turned back and said, “mommy” after we were already getting (in) the car. And that’s when her mom came and was alarmed. And I had to kind of hurry up and scoot her out of there.”

“I got her in the car … She said, “I’m scared.” I said, “I know, I’m scared too.” We were both shaken up for about an hour; it took us both to calm down,” he said.

Natalie Calvo, 7, has been returned to her family after being kidnapped.

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