A Gwinnett County mother said she jumped in her car and chased a man who allegedly tried to lure her sons to his SUV as they got off their school bus, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Janet Chavez told the news station she believes the man was trying to kidnap the two boys last Tuesday.
Her sons, who are both students at Radloff Middle School, had just gotten off the bus on Graves Road in Norcross when a man called out to them, according to a Gwinnett police incident report.
“We told him no, but he kept insisting we need a taxi,” Chavez’s son, Cristhofer Hernandez, said. “He told us to get into the car, and we again told him no.”
The boys ran toward their apartment, but the man followed them and cursed at them in Spanish, the incident report said.
“We knocked on the door so hard,” James Chavez said. “We were so nervous we couldn’t use the key to open it up.”
The boys described the car and the driver to authorities.
Janet Chavez said she spotted the man parked near the apartment later in the afternoon, and the boys confirmed it was the same man. She then chased him and sped through the apartment complex following him.
“The apartment complex had speed bumps and the male never slowed down on the speed bumps,” the incident report said.
Janet Chavez followed the man on I-85 to Shallowford Road and managed to get his license plate number. Gwinnett police are trying to use it to locate him.
An investigation is ongoing.
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