The boy’s father was holding hands and walking down the sidewalk with his two sons at around 3:30 pm in Crown Heights when the masked assailant, who is seen wearing a blue and white letterman jacket, approaches the family and snatches the boy.

A video caught by security footage in the Brooklyn neighborhood Crown Heights, showed an attempted kidnapping in broad daylight. The footage, posted to X by Crown Heights Shomrim Patrol, showed a father walking with his two children around 3:30 PM on Saturday,

Stephan Stowe, 28, was picked up early Sunday and charged with attempted kidnapping – several hours after he senselessly tried to yank the young boy away from his dad on Kingston Avenue near Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights around 3:30 p.

Video released by police in New York shows a masked man trying to grab a young boy from his father's arms in Brooklyn. In the video, the father holds onto the boy and pushes the man away. The 28-year-old suspect was arrested.

A man was arrested and charged after he allegedly tried to kidnap a 6-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy who was walking with his father in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, the NYPD said.