Random Kidnap In Manatee

Floridians, keep your eye out for this kid, the truck, and the driver:

Authorities are searching for a 13-year-old boy they say was kidnapped at gunpoint at a Manatee school bus stop.

Deputies say the teenage boy was pulled from a school bus stop at gunpoint near Old Tampa Road and Douglas Hill Place in Parrish just before 9 a.m.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the child is 13-year-old Clay Moore. He is white, five feet tall, and 100 pounds with wavy brown, blondish, chin length hair.

He was last seen wearing a green polo shirt and black jacket, both with Manatee School of the Arts emblem, khaki pants, and red backpack. They also say he has a birthmark between his eyes.

Witnesses described the armed kidnapper as either Hispanic male or a white male with a dark tan. They say he was around 30 years old, with short, dark hair and a dark mustache, wearing a long-sleeve blue and tan striped shirt, blue jeans and dark sunglasses.

Here is a description of the truck witnesses described:

* Late 90s or early 2000 Toyota or Ranger style
* Red
* Extended cab
* No tinted windows
* No tool box

Officials described a chaotic scene where the kidnapping took place.

According to Dave Bristow, spokesman for the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, there were probably 14 or 15 children at the bus stop where the kidnapping took place. No other children were taken, or hurt in the incident.

Bristow described the incident as “horrific” because so many other children were witnesses, and it appears to be a random kidnapping.

According Bristow, the kidnapper came out with a gun, and Clay happened to be the closest student to him. He ordered Clay to go with him. Other students starting running, screaming, hysterical and he was able to get Clay into the truck.

Students at the scene say that Clay said “Sir, I don’t know you.”

One child described a heart-breaking scene:

“Everyone said when he got in the car, he was bawling his eyes out.”

Bristow said it was probably the scariest situation the children had ever encountered.

Manatee Sheriff Charlie Wells said every available resource is being used and called on to find the missing child and the suspect.

“I just wanna get this young man home,” he said.

Wells also said the family is at the command center, and are very emotional.

“The family is shook up, as we all are,” he said.

UPDATE:
They've caught the kidnapper. No word yet on the boy.
UPDATE II:
The boy is alive. Lordamighty, thanks for Ambers that get all the stops rolled out so fast.
UPDATE III:
Now it's the boy has been found, but the suspect is still at large.
UPDATE IV:
Egads, he is with deputies who are interviewing him:

Sheriff Charlie Wells said they found out the boy was okay when his mother got a cell phone call from someone who he said was rendering aid to Clay.