Atlanta police Thursday released a description of a man they believe stole a car Wednesday night with a toddler inside the vehicle and said an earlier media report of the man's arrest was incorrect.
According to Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones, Wendell Rashon Marshall left his 2-year-old son inside a running 2006 Honda at a store at James P. Brawley Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard while he went inside to buy a bottle of juice.
Marshall “advised that as he was about to pay the cashier, he saw with his peripheral vision his vehicle’s car door close and the vehicle driving away,” Jones said.
A lookout was issued for the Honda and the vehicle was found a short time later parked at a northwest Atlanta convenience store in the 600 block of Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard with the child safe inside, Jones said.
She said the store’s security video showed “an older-looking black male wearing a blue and white fedora, carrying a black coat, walking with a limp getting out of Mr. Marshall’s car.”
Police arrested Marshall and charged him with reckless conduct and driving without a license. He was being held in the Fulton County Jail Thursday on $3,000 bond.
The toddler, who was unharmed by the ordeal, was released to his mother’s custody, according to Jones.
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