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5-year-old boy safe after car stolen with him inside, SAPD says

Authorities say it was a good Samaritan who reported the child wandering a nearby parking lot, alone.

SAN ANTONIO — A frightening Christmas Eve incident ended in reunion for a Dallas family visiting San Antonio when their car was stolen with a 5-year-old boy inside, according to police officials. 

He was eventually found wandering the parking lot of a west-side furniture store by a good Samaritan, and is now back with family. 

SAPD said officers initially responded to the area of Culebra and Grissom Friday afternoon around 1:30 p.m., where a mother left the vehicle parked and running in a store parking lot to pick up a piñata. She told police she saw the suspect get in her vehicle and drive away, and she got in a car with a good Samaritan in an attempt to pursue the stolen vehicle.

A search ensued, while witnesses to the crime provided police with information on the vehicle the suspect arrived in. 

The child is safe after he was found a few miles away, alone, about an hour later. Police didn't provide specifics on the suspects, but told KENS 5 they're looking through surveillance video and an arrest was "imminent."

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