‘That’s not her baby, that’s my brother!’ Moment hero girl, 12, saves her 2-year-old sibling from being kidnapped by a stranger in Oklahoma diner
- A woman identified as Michelle Rene Litton tried to abduct a two-year-old boy at Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburger in Lawton, Oklahoma on Dec 26
- Makayla Phillips, 12, and her two younger siblings were at the restaurant with their grandmother when the woman approached them
- She kissed the two younger children then took Brett into her arms
- Quick-thinking Makayla grabbed him back and the woman starting yelling claiming that the child was hers
- She was kicked out of the restaurant after the kidnapping attempt
- The Phillips family reported the incident to police and found surveillance video footage of the incident
- Police identified the suspect as Litton but are yet to locate her
- She is known to police for drug and prostitution arrests and intake to mental health facilities
A quick-thinking 12-year-old girl saved her baby brother from being kidnapped by stranger in an Oklahoma diner in a heart-stopping moment caught on surveillance footage.
On Thursday December 26 Makayla Phillips, 12, and her two younger siblings went out to lunch at Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburger in Lawton with their grandmother when a woman they didn’t know approached them and kissed the two younger children.
‘[She] gave them both a kiss. My grandma, she thought it was weird and not right, so she decided to move us to a different table,’ Phillips said.
Then the woman suddenly grabbed her two-year-old brother Brett, leading Makayla to cry out and snatch her brother out of the stranger’s arms.
Quick-thinking 12-year-old Makayla Phillips saved her baby brother Brett, two, from being kidnapped by a deranged woman in an Oklahoma diner in a heart-stopping moment all caught on surveillance footage. Pictured above from left to right: Makayla, mom Crystal Phillips and Brett
On Thursday December 26 Makayla Phillips, 12, and her two younger siblings went out to lunch at Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburger in Lawton with their grandmother when a woman they didn’t know approached them and kissed the two younger children. The woman pictured circled kissing on of the children
She then attempted grabbed two-year-old Brett into her arms, but Makayla snatched him away. The woman then claimed that the child was hers
In this image the woman appears to bend over one of the children and kiss them as the grandma looks on
The woman and Makayla pictured sparring over Brett
After the incident the family moved to another table inside the restaurant (on the left)
The woman then appeared to move towards Makayla’s younger sister, but the grandma quickly approached to defend the child.
‘She was saying my brother was her baby, and I was just yelling back at her saying, “That’s not her baby, that’s my brother,”’ Makayla said to KSWO.
Once the abduction attempt was foiled, the woman began to make bizarre, deranged comments.
‘She was talking about how she had a baby and she decapitated her baby and how she did all these things to her baby. She was a very disturbed woman. A very disturbed woman,’ Makayla said.
Once restaurant employees realized what was happening they kicked the woman out.
That woman has been identified as 59-year-old Michelle Rene Litton but she is yet to be located and arrested.
Police reviewed video footage of the incident and identified the attempted kidnapper as Litton due to multiple prior interactions including drug and prostitution arrests as well as intake to mental health facilities. Pictured above in two old mugs. They are yet to locate her
Mom Cyrstal Phillips shared this post on Facebook after the incident
The incident took place at Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburger in Lawton, Oklahoma
Police were called around 5pm that same day to speak with the Phillips family about the attempted kidnapping.
Makayla’s father told the cops about the abduction attempt and cops for store surveillance video of the attempt.
Cops described Makayla as ‘distraught’. The suspect was described as ‘rambling and talking crazy about how she decapitated her own baby and that she was a prostitute.’
Police reviewed video footage of the incident and identified the attempted kidnapper as Litton due to multiple prior interactions including drug and prostitution arrests as well as intake to mental health facilities, according to SWOK News.
Litton as a prior felony conviction in Comanche County for assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon in July 2002, according to prison records
The children’s mother Crystal Phillips was at work when the abduction attempt took place was horrified to hear that a stranger nearly snatched away her kids.
‘Especially in a public place where there are so many eyewitnesses, so many people, there was no shame, no nothing. It’s terrible,’ Crystal Phillips said.