Amber Alert Cancelled: Suspect In Custody, Girl Found

DETROIT, MI — An amber alert has been cancelled for a Detroit toddler taken at gunpoint from her aunt's home early Tuesday morning, according to media reports. Police said Grady Lamar Barrett, 42, abducted his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter, then left in a pickup .

Barrett is in custody and the girl has been found, according to reports.

Barrett and a female were taken into custody just before 10 a.m. following a police chase on Meyers Road, south of Seven Mile Road, Michigan State Police said. Barrett crashed his pickup during the pursuit, hitting two other vehicles, WDIV-TV reported.

Police said Barrett, who is not the toddler's biological father, pulled his gun when he entered the little girl’s aunt’s house on the 21000 block of Karl Street about 2:30 a.m. and took her.

The aunt was babysitting at the time. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Detroit Patch, and click here to find your local Michigan Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Photos via Detroit Police Department

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