CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: At around 9 a.m. on Sunday, authorities located the suspect's vehicle at a home in Forest Park. The father was taken into custody without incident, they said. The Clayton County Sheriff's office said the child has been returned safely to his mother in time to enjoy Easter.
ORIGINAL STORY: Clayton County Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing child who was allegedly taken by his father.
The department released a statement early Sunday morning stating that detectives responded to the 2000 block of Brighton Trail around 8:45 p.m. to reports of a domestic disturbance.
While on the scene, officers spoke to the complainant who advised that she went to the location to pick up her 8-year-old son from his father, Dwayne Flemings.
"The child's mother advised the father refused to return the juvenile and sped away with the juvenile in his car at a high rate of speed," the police statement said.
She also told police that Flemings had made recent comments suggesting he would kill the child and himself before he would return the child to his mother.
The boy was last seen in his father's 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse which has a Georgia license plate reading BLU4315. He is described as having black hair and borwn eyes and is about 4 feet 7 inches tall and 100 pounds. Police are not aware what clothing he was wearing at the time.
MissingKids.org further reports that the boy and Flemings were last seen at 2042 Mt. Zion Road in Morrow, Georgia.
Anyone with information regarding the location of the child is asked to contact Clayton County Police at 770-477-3550.