Suffolk VA Walmart employees help prevent abduction of 4-year-old boy, police say
Suffolk VA June 7, 2023 Police in Suffolk say several Walmart employees prevented the attempted abduction of a 4-year-old boy on Tuesday morning.
A mother and her son were shopping at about 9 a.m. at the Walmart on the 6200 block of College Drive, according to a release from the Suffolk Police Department. Police say preliminary investigation revealed the mother and child were at the self-checkout station when an unknown woman “walked up, took the child out of the cart and attempted to walk out of the store.”
The employees then approached the woman, who put down the child. The boy ran to his mother, and the suspect — identified as 35-year-old Keeta Nicole Neville, of Norfolk — ran through the parking lot. Responding officers later found Neville at a local Applebee’s about 15 minutes later.
Neville is charged with abduction, assault on a law enforcement officer and simple assault.
