A 2-month-old girl is safe and her father is in police custody after he turned himself in at Sandy Springs police headquarters Thursday morning, officials said.
The GBI issued a Levi’s Call, Georgia’s version of an Amber Alert, for the infant after she was allegedly kidnapped by 22-year-old Randy Bernard Clark around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. Clark took the child from a hotel room at the Home2 Suites on Peachtree Dunwoody Road near Perimeter Mall, officials said.
More than 24 hours later, Clark surrendered and was charged with kidnapping, Sandy Springs police said. He is also wanted on felony warrants out of other metro Atlanta jurisdictions, police said.
Clark is the girl’s biological father, but he does not have custody, according to officials.
Investigators made contact with Clark by phone while he was on the run and eventually persuaded him to surrender, Channel 2 Action News reported. After being taken into custody, Clark was transported to the hospital for evaluation along with the child, authorities said.
The baby and her mother were reunited at the hospital, Channel 2 reported.
Police believe Clark never left the metro area with his daughter.
Clark was booked into the Fulton County Jail on one count of kidnapping as well as felony charges filed in Gwinnett and Rockdale counties.
Online court records show that Clark was charged in Gwinnett on counts of kidnapping, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats or acts and second-degree criminal damage to property. According to his arrest warrants, he broke into a home in Snellville through a back door in November and threatened to shoot two women. Clark then grabbed one of the women and abducted her, the warrants said. The warrants contained no details about Clark’s relationship to the victims.
Clark’s warrants out of Rockdale were not immediately available. Officials in Gwinnett and Rockdale have not responded to requests for more information.
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