Man Rescued A Distressed Child By Holding Suspected

"I heard the kid screaming, 'Please don't beat me!' so that's when my instinct kicked in some more; so I sped on up to go get that kid," Kelcey Willis told WGXA.

That gut instinct took over Willis when he stopped for an oil change Sunday, Nov. 6, at a Walmart in Warner Robins, Georgia. 

"As buddy was filling us in to get our oil changed, we heard a little kid screaming. So we turned to the corner down there and we saw him getting snatched out of the car and the man was taking him behind the building," Willis explained. "We thought he was using the bathroom, but it took him way too long to come back from behind the building."

Willis said when the child kept screaming, he felt he had to take action.

The screaming kept getting louder and louder and that didn't sit right with us. My first instinct was to grab my gun and go get that kid out of the woods," said Willis.

Once in the woods, Willis said he realized the danger the child was in.

"By the time I came around the corner, he was on top of him choking him, and at that point, I just put my gun up and held him at gunpoint and grabbed the kid," said Willis.

Willis was one of several people to help rescue the kid until the police arrived.

Willis said he believes if it were not for his actions and quick thinking, this child's story would have a different ending.

If I ain't step in and I ain't react as fast as I did, the kid would probably be dead ... He would've choked the child cold. Once we got the kid out of the woods, he said the man was going to beat him and leave him for the animals," said Willis.

Though it was first reported as a kidnapping in progress, Warner Robins police said they are not classifying it that way now because the adult and child are related.

Police said the man, identified as Haimnarine Doobay, 67, was charged with aggravated assault and cruelty toward a child. The child was taken to the Houston County Sheriff's Office's juvenile department for further follow-up and care.