MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A domestic dispute over custody of a child sent a mother and a grandmother to the hospital Tuesday afternoon.
Police said it’s not kidnapping, but rather custodial interference.
Neighbors, however, said it all could have been avoided.
It all played out in the driveway with a 19-month-old baby in the center of it all.
The father came to take the baby, but the mother wasn’t happy about it.
While he was backing out in his car, the baby’s mother and grandmother tried to pull him out of the backseat.
“That’s sad, very sad,” one woman told WREG.
She didn’t want to give us her name but said when she turned onto Arlington Avenue and saw all the police, she knew something was wrong.
“It’s sad people get stuck on stupid. You know, this could have been avoided,” the woman added.
The mother and the grandmother tried to get the baby out of the father’s moving car when they were knocked over by the car doors.
Paramedics took them to Methodist Hospital with minor injuries.
While police aren’t calling this a kidnapping, neighbors said they weren’t so sure.
“I don’t know what they call it, but when they said no he should have left that baby alone,” one neighbor told WREG.
Police said the father left with the baby, but his mother brought it back a few minutes later.
Neighbors said the child is the one that loses in all of this.
“He didn’t have no business. If she said no the father should have left and come back with the police,” the neighbor added.
MPD detectives will decide whether there will be any charges filed in this case.