UPDATE: The child has been found safe.
The Kansas City Police Department says that at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Jaxon Halley, 2, and his mother were forcibly taken at gunpoint by a suspect identified as Darryl Livingston Jr., 39, during a domestic incident at their home. The child and the mother were driven into Missouri where the mother escaped from the suspect at around 3:28 pm.
Livingston kept Jaxon Halley and left in a unknown direction, from Kansas City, Missouri, making statements to the mother that he would kill her and the child. Law Enforcement believe the child is in imminent danger.
Call 911 immediately if you have seen a missing child, suspect, or suspects’ vehicle. If you have other information on a missing child, call 911 or the Kansas City Kansas Police Department at 913-596-3000. Please call 911 or the KBI at 1-800-KS-CRIME.