Man arrested in downtown St. Louis after surveillance footage shows him dragging baby in face down stroller

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Surveillance footage reviewed by KMOX shows the unidentified man dragging a stroller face down behind him, with a baby inside.

The man eventually let go of the stroller and walked away, leaving it behind. That's when educator Steward Stiles took action. Stiles, an educator with Voices Academy Charter School, happened to be in the right place at the right time, and ran over to check on the child.

"As soon as he dropped the stroller I immediately ran to the stroller, picked up the child, picked up the stroller, called police." said Stiles, adding he wasn't sure it was a child at first. "I looked in the stroller and there was a child in there. I thought it was maybe a toy but when the baby started moving I was like, 'oh my god this is a real child.'"

Stiles says the child was unharmed and undisturbed despite being dragged in a stroller.

"The child had no scrapes or bruises, miraculously, because the child was barely hanging above the ground."

Stiles says the child was quite young.

"This was definitely a newborn baby... I wouldn't say no more than two months old. You still had to support the head." said Stiles.

Stiles says the man walked down down Tucker before returning to Olive Street where he abandoned the child and was arrested by police.

KMOX has reached out to the St. Louis Police Department seeking further information about the man. A spokesperson for the department confirms a man was arrested for tossing a stroller/baby into the street but a report has not been completed yet and they will not have anything further to provide until it is.