UPDATE: Kason Thomas was found safe in Indianapolis Thursday night in the same car he was taken in on Monday night. Police said the child has been taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Both children were in their mother’s car when it was stolen at the top of the week. But within a day, one of the twins was found after being abandoned in a parking lot of a Dayton, Ohio, airport.
Columbus police arrested Nalah T. Jackson, 24, in the twins’ abduction Thursday. She was charged with two felony counts of kidnapping. However, the second infant is still missing.
On Monday, Dec. 19, around 9:45 p.m., the mother of Kason and Kyair Thomas, the abducted five-month-old infants, hopped out of her 2010 Honda Accord in front of a Donato’s parking lot in Columbus’ Short North to pick up a food order in the restaurant, according to The Columbus Dispatch. During the split second of her picking up a DoorDash delivery, someone jumped in her car and drove off with her babies.
The twins’ mother called 911, saying through her tears, “Someone just stole my car. My babies are in there.” She asked the officer to help her find the person who stole the car and her children, CantonRep reports.
After being notified of the missing twins and car, a statewide Amber Alert was issued around 1:35 a.m., close to four hours after the twins were snatched.
The Columbus police also issued a BOLO (all-points bulletin) to five neighboring states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky, in search of the babies. The vehicle was recently purchased and does not have a license plate, but it has a torn Ohio registration sticker on the rear bumper and a white bumper sticker that says, “Westside City Toys,” CNN reports.
