27-year-old man charged after dragging baby in face down stroller in downtown St. Louis

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A 27-year-old man has been charged for endangering a child in regards to an incident on Olive Street on Monday in downtown St. Louis.

Tamadji Shakespeare, 27, was charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child.

Security footage of the incident showed Shakespeare dragging a stroller face down behind him , with a baby inside. Shakespeare eventually let go of the stroller and walked away, leaving it behind.

Stiles, an educator with Voices Academy Charter School on Olive Street, 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 to KMOX on Monday, 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." said Stiles.

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