The frightened father of the small boy nearly kidnapped at a Florida pharmacy feared his son would’ve been killed if he hadn’t fought off the creep during the disturbing incident.
Hassan Rodriguez was with his 4-year-old son and wife exiting the Miami Beach pharmacy on Collins Avenue when suspect Nicolas Sternaman entered the store at around 11:55 a.m. on February 8.
“He grabbed him by the neck, if I’m not behind him, he would have killed him,” the father told an officer in body camera footage released on Thursday, according to NBC Miami.
The terrified family had just arrived in the area from Cuba.
After walking past the boy’s mother, Sternaman, 26, allegedly hunched over and grabbed the small child by the neck in an attempted abduction, turning his back to Rodriquez.
The quick-thinking dad jumped on the stranger, forcing the child out of his abductor’s grasp and falling to the ground, according to surveillance video from inside the store.
The two men wrestled away from the doors for several seconds as Rodriquez ripped Sternaman’s jacket off.
As Sternaman broke free from the father’s grasp, the two had a small standoff before the creep bolted out the door and ran from the store.
