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 The boy was with his mother in the children's section of a public
library in Milpitas, California, a San Francisco suburb, at about
10:45 a.m. local time when a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt
reportedly kidnapped him, Milpitas Police Chief Steve Pangelinan
said during a news conference aired on a local NBC affiliate.
The reported abduction set off an alert describing the boy and
suspect to area law enforcement and public transportation agencies,
Pangelinan said.
About an hour after the reported abduction, Santa Clara Valley
Transportation Authority bus driver Tim Watson saw a man and child
he thought may fit the description authorities provided, Watson told
reporters.
 Watson created a ploy to stop the bus in Fremont, about 12 miles
north from the library, at a bus station and walk the aisle under
the guise of looking for a lost backpack, according to the San
Francisco Chronicle.
Watson saw the boy was wearing red shoes, fitting the description,
and notified his dispatcher, the newspaper reported.
“The bus driver is a hero, an absolute hero,” Pangelinan said.
The suspect, Alfonso Edington, 23, stepped off the bus with the
child in his arms, police said, and struggled with officers before
releasing the child. The child was unharmed, police said.
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Pangelinan said that investigators were working to determine a
motive and what the suspect was planning to do with the child.
"There are so many unanswered questions," he said.
(This story was refiled to add byline and insert dropped word "of"
in first paragraph)
(Reporting by Emmett Berg in San Francisco; Editing by Mark Potter)
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