An urgent manhunt is underway after a woman and her baby were abducted outside a shopping centre by a knife-wielding bloke.
The shocking incident happened outside the Stud Park Shopping Centre in Rowville, Melbourne, Australia, on May 10. CCTV footage shows the woman and her child getting out of their own Suzuki S-Cross car in the car park when the man carrying a knife walked up to her at around 6am.
According to a statement from Victoria Police he then threatened her, forcing her to get into the driver’s seat of her own car. He then got into the back seat – alongside the woman’s child – and demanded she drive to a series of tech stores where she was forced to buy him Apple MacBooks.
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And while she was forced to go into the stores, the sick bloke stayed inside the car with the baby. Around two hours after the ordeal began, he was later seen on the Dandenong Creek path holding four laptops.
Thankfully, the woman and child were unharmed, and police are now appealing for information about the bloke who was seen wearing a “grey hoodie, green fluorescent vest and black or grey pants with black running shoes at the time”.
Leading Senior Constable Kendra Jackson said: “Knox Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating an incident where a mother and her infant child were abducted from a shopping centre in Rowville last week.
“The man is perceived to be Asian in appearance and aged between 20 and 35 years of age. He was last seen carrying a shopping bag containing two Apple MacBook Pro computers in their boxes and two further boxed Apple MacBook computers under his left arm.
Anyone who witnessed the incident, or with any other information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online.”
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