Amber Alert For Missing Toddler Cancelled; Child Is Safe

Jayden Squire

Jayden Squire

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Police canceled an Amber Alert after a man took his son to the police department.

Authorities had issued an Amber Alert for 16-month-old Jayden Squire late Thursday night.

Police said the boy was taken by 25-year-old Russell Squire in Asheville.

The child’s mother said Squire strangled her until she was unconscious and then took the child.

Squire took the child into the Asheville Police Department on Friday morning.  No word yet on any charges for Mr. Squire.

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