A Chicago father snatched his 2-year-old son back from an attempted kidnapper this weekend during what was supposed to be a fun family outing at the beach.
"A man just turns around and grabs my kid out of nowhere," Armando Uvalle told NBC Chicago. "I told him, just get away from my kid."
Uvalle says he was building sand castles with his family when he turned around to see a man, later identified as convicted sex offender Tyrone Hill, holding up his 2-year-old son Isaiah.
"I just grabbed my kid back," Uvalle told the Chicago Sun Times, saying he told Hill, "You're lucky I don't beat your a--."
The man tried to flee the scene but Uvalle quickly enlisted a bicycle cop to help track him down.
Hill was arrested and charged with the attempted kidnapping of a child under 13.
Records show he was a "non-compliant" sex offender in the state of Illinois because at the time of his arrest he was on probation for failing to register as a sex offender in 2010.
He was previously convicted for the sexual assault of a 7-year-old child in 1997, when he was 16 years old.
A judge agreed to a request from Hill's public defender on Sunday to transfer him to Cermak Hospital at Cook County Jail because he suffers from schizophrenia, NBC Chicago reported.
Though the incident left him shaking for the rest of the day, Uvalle said it would not deter him from returning to the beach in the future. "It could happen to any family," he said.
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