'God told me to save her': in California, a homeless man tried to snatch a child from his mother

A homeless man was arrested for trying to abduct a 6-year-old girl when she ate pizza with her family, writes ABC News.

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The incident occurred in the city of Venice, California, when a girl and her family ate on the street in the courtyard of a pizzeria.

The man approached the family several times before trying to grab the child from the mother's arms and saying he had to "save the girl."

“He started telling us that God told him to save her. He was coming towards us trying to pick her up,” said the girl's father, Riley Pegram.

It was then that relatives began to act to stop the homeless.

“He almost grabbed her. I pushed him away, my brother pulled his hair and fell on top of him, I also jumped on top, holding him down,” Pegram said.

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The suspect, later identified as Evan McLaurin-Nelson, is a former Las Vegas resident who moved to California three years ago and is believed to be homeless, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

MacLaurin-Nelson has arrest records in California and Nevada, including indecent acts and hooliganism.

A 6-year-old girl, Nevea Pegram, told how her uncle helped to escape from a stranger.

“This guy, he started following us and then my uncle had to push him out of the way, but he kept following us,” she said.

“We think he was under the influence of something. On some type of drug or something like that. I don’t know if he was homeless, but I know he was on drugs,” Riley Pegram said.

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The girl’s father and his brother were able to detain the suspect until the police arrived at the scene. Pegram said it took six officers to finally arrest the man.

"[The police] were walking him and he was just screaming loudly, 'Save the girl!' Save the girl! I need to save her!” Pegram said.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney has accused Maclaurin-Nelson of attempted kidnapping and resistance from the police.

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