Brother Clung to Sister's Legs as Man Tried to Kidnap Her

A brother is being hailed as a hero Tuesday after he grabbed onto his sister’s legs and wouldn’t let go as a man tried to kidnap her.

The man snatched the girl Monday on a Chicago street just after 7 a.m. and “dragged her towards a parked white van which had the rear doors open,” police said. But her brother wasn’t about to let that happen. He clung to his his sister’s legs, yelling as the man tried to take her.

“I was trying to grab anything I could to try and not go in to the van,”15-year-old Diavonnie Ingram told ABC Chicago, of the moment she was grabbed.

Her brother Davonte, 13, wouldn’t let go until the man gave up.

“She was already halfway into the van, like to the waist, and I had to grab her legs and keep pulling as hard as I could,” Davonte said.

He backed down and fled the scene but with some of the girl’s belongings, police said.

The attempted abduction took place in the 3000 block of North Francisco in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The suspect is described as a Hispanic man between 20 and 30 years old. He stands 5-foot-9 to 6-foot-2 and weighs 190-210 pounds. He was clean-shaven with dark curly hair and was wearing a black-and-white Adidas jacket and construction boots.

He got away in a white work van with no side windows and a large dent on the front passenger side.

“It’s disturbing, it’s really disturbing,” their mother Felicia Wings told ABC Chicago. “My heart dropped. This is my kids. You see and read about this all the time, but for it to happen to me, I was flabbergasted, I couldn’t believe it.

“My son to me is my hero, as well as hers. And he’s always going to be a hero because he saved her life.”

Anyone with information should call Area North Detectives at 312-744-8261.