Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 10, 2020 21:40:16 GMT -5
'He just kept staring at her'
N.C. A&T student Cody Byrd felt 'adrenaline rushing' when he realized a girl might be abducted. That's when he intervened.
By Kenwyn Caranna
kenwyn.caranna@greensboro.com
As an abduction attempt played out in front of him, Cody Byrd tried to keep his emotions in check. “I think I initially just wanted to grab him around the neck and keep him from leaving at all costs." Khadejeh Nikouyeh/News & Record
GREENSBORO — Enraged.
That’s the emotion Cody Byrd first felt when he realized the man he had just spoken to had apparently tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl.
The 24-year-old was watching the man hurriedly clean the remnants of his breakfast from a table at the Biscuitville on West Market Street, rushing to leave the restaurant.
Byrd, an N.C. A&T graduate student, had just intervened in an encounter between the girl and the man, whom police later identified as 55-year-old Timothy Jon Fry.
But Byrd didn’t give into that feeling of rage. He took a more measured approach that resulted in police capturing Fry less than an hour later.
• • •
The morning of Dec. 27 started out normally, with Byrd stopping at the restaurant for breakfast before heading to his part-time job at Perry J. Brown Funeral Home. While waiting for his food, Byrd noticed Fry sitting and staring at the little girl one table over.
“He just kept staring at her and ... it just gave me this weird feeling,” Byrd recalled. “She was just sitting there peacefully ... playing with her dolls.”
Fry kept staring, even as the girl got up to get her and her mother’s food when it was ready, Byrd said.
The girl’s mother, 41-year-old Heather Owen, also noticed the man staring at her daughter.
“He looked angryish,” she recalled during an interview Wednesday. “Like someone who was having a bad day.”
Fry had his arms crossed. Owen noticed he was wearing fingernail polish. Despite her uneasiness, she didn’t want to jump to conclusions that he was dangerous.
Read more:
www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/n-c-a-t-student-cody-byrd-felt-adrenaline-rushing/article_065a95ac-60a6-5087-9d64-0919d1d37664.html
N.C. A&T student Cody Byrd felt 'adrenaline rushing' when he realized a girl might be abducted. That's when he intervened.
By Kenwyn Caranna
kenwyn.caranna@greensboro.com
As an abduction attempt played out in front of him, Cody Byrd tried to keep his emotions in check. “I think I initially just wanted to grab him around the neck and keep him from leaving at all costs." Khadejeh Nikouyeh/News & Record
GREENSBORO — Enraged.
That’s the emotion Cody Byrd first felt when he realized the man he had just spoken to had apparently tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl.
The 24-year-old was watching the man hurriedly clean the remnants of his breakfast from a table at the Biscuitville on West Market Street, rushing to leave the restaurant.
Byrd, an N.C. A&T graduate student, had just intervened in an encounter between the girl and the man, whom police later identified as 55-year-old Timothy Jon Fry.
But Byrd didn’t give into that feeling of rage. He took a more measured approach that resulted in police capturing Fry less than an hour later.
• • •
The morning of Dec. 27 started out normally, with Byrd stopping at the restaurant for breakfast before heading to his part-time job at Perry J. Brown Funeral Home. While waiting for his food, Byrd noticed Fry sitting and staring at the little girl one table over.
“He just kept staring at her and ... it just gave me this weird feeling,” Byrd recalled. “She was just sitting there peacefully ... playing with her dolls.”
Fry kept staring, even as the girl got up to get her and her mother’s food when it was ready, Byrd said.
The girl’s mother, 41-year-old Heather Owen, also noticed the man staring at her daughter.
“He looked angryish,” she recalled during an interview Wednesday. “Like someone who was having a bad day.”
Fry had his arms crossed. Owen noticed he was wearing fingernail polish. Despite her uneasiness, she didn’t want to jump to conclusions that he was dangerous.
Read more:
www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/n-c-a-t-student-cody-byrd-felt-adrenaline-rushing/article_065a95ac-60a6-5087-9d64-0919d1d37664.html
