Child Found Following Amber Alert, Suspect In Custody
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 2-and-a-half-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his father has been found safe.
An Amber Alert was issued for that boy after his non-custodial father stabbed the boy's mother in the leg and then fled, Minneapolis Police said.
Just before 6 a.m., officers received multiple 911 calls about a woman screaming in the street on the 2000 block of 3rd Avenue South. When they arrived, police found a woman with a stab wound to the leg, but didn't find her son with her, 2-and-a-half-year-old Harlan Vontreal Hulbert.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the father as 26-year-old Hershel Theo Hulbert of Minneapolis, who also uses the name "Herlsey."
WCCO talked with the missing boy's grandfather, Thorice Hulbert.
"My son caught his girlfriend with his cousin, and they tried to fight my son," Thorice Hulbert said. "And my son, he went off and took his baby -- you know he has a baby by her -- and they came over here. The next think I know the police are coming."
Police believed the woman's ex-boyfriend and the father of the child took the young boy and fled. An Amber Alert was then issued.
One woman WCCO spoke with told us she heard the woman screaming in pain outside her window, saying she thought she was in labor from the way she was doubled over. She was yelling, "Help, I need my baby!"
He was found about three hours later near 32nd Street East and Clinton Avenue South, and is now back with his mother who is at HCMC being treated for non-life threatening injuries. He has been checked out by doctors there and is reportedly just fine.
Police credit the public' quick response in helping find that child.
"This is a perfect ending," Sgt. Catherine Michal said at a morning news conference. "The community came together."
Shortly after the boy was found, Hershel Hulbert was apprehended and arrested on domestic assault charges, police said. He was taken to Minneapolis City Hall for questioning.
A second person believed involved in the incident was located. It's unclear if they will be arrested.
