Woman grabs baby, runs from attempted kidnapping

ANDERSON - Anderson police are looking for a man they say tried to kidnap an 18-month-old baby from a car at the Anderson Mall parking lot Sunday afternoon.

Police say that the man tried to take the girl as her mother was getting the baby out of a car seat. The woman, a 20-year-old from Central, was at the mall around noon Sunday.

The man was described as a white male, with a full beard. He was wearing blue jeans shorts, a white v-neck T-shirt, tennis shoes and a plain white baseball cap.

The mother picked her child up out of the seat and ran to the mall's entrance. Neither of them were hurt, the police report stated.

The man drove off in a silver Ford F-150 pickup truck and headed toward Clemson Boulevard. The truck had a South Carolina license plate on it, and the letters "STX" on the back near a quarter side panel.