9-year-old Nyla Prentiss was in the car with her 11-month-old brother a few days ago, when her mother, who had been driving the car, stopped at a local 7-Eleven.
The woman stopped the car, and locked the children inside, as she walked to the ATM for a quick exchange.
Soon, Nyla realized that there was a guy around, who was acting weird.
“My mom went to the store to put some money on her card, and this boy was looking at her in a strange way, and then he– he ran outside, and then he tried to open my mom’s door,” the girl told Fox 5. “And then my mom came outside and she was like, ‘What are you doing next to my car?’”
As the woman approached the car, the doors unlocked because the car has this technology that unlocks the doors when the keys are approaching the car.
The man seized the opportunity and opened the driver’s door. He got inside the car and drove away, with the two siblings still trapped inside with him.
The girl was in shock, and she tried to keep calm and think clearly. She knew she didn’t want to make him mad, so she tried to find a way to escape.
“I didn’t want to put my hands on him because he was driving fast and I didn’t want to die,” Nyla explained. “So I just closed my eyes and I was thinking, like, what I’m gonna say and stuff.”
Moments later, she had an idea. She tried to reach the unlock button in the car, but the stranger swatted her hand.
She then tried to sound as calm as possible and asked the man to let her and her brother go.
“And I was like, ‘Please sir, let us out the car,’” the girl recalled.
Indeed, the man pulled over and unlocked the doors. He said “Get out!” and let Nyla take her baby brother with her and leave the car, although he didn’t let her have her shoes.
The little girl, scared and in pain because she was carrying her brother while running barefoot, ran towards the direction she hoped the 7-Eleven was.
Indeed, after covering a distance of about five blocks, the siblings reached the 7-Eleven they had been kidnapped from.
The store staff got a chair for the girl and offered her something to drink, while their mother got to her knees thanking God when she saw her children.
Nyla, the only girl among four brothers, is still suffering from night terrors and has nightmares because of the incident.
She is now clinging to her mom, hoping to get over the shock they both went through that night.
11-month-old King was lucky to have Nyla around to take care of him and make sure he would not be harmed in any way.
Head over to the video below to watch Fox5’s interview with the young hero.
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