UPDATE: 12:45P.M. 8/5/2017:
Two people, the child's father and a woman have been charged in connection with Friday's Amber Alert.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree Sr. charged Joshua Brunt, 25, and Jasmine Brunt, 25, with one count each of Aggravated Assault, Battery and Aggravated Endangering a Child.
The investigation is ongoing.
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The AMBER Alert issued Friday afternoon ended when the child’s father and the father’s girlfriend turned themselves into police. The boy was in the backseat and didn't seem fazed by the wild afternoon that had Kansas City looking for him.
At sunset, 2-year-old Jace Brunt got to see his grandmother once again. Earlier Friday, no one knew if that was going to happen.
Jace’s mom, Ja’Lisa Harris, told 41 Action News the boy’s father—who doesn’t have custody—showed up at her apartment with his girlfriend around one Friday afternoon.
Both of them allegedly armed and ready to fight.
“My neighbor—my friend—she picked my son up. My kid’s father ran over there and punched her in the face and put a gun on her face. Then he picked up my son by his shirt, not by his arms but his shirt like he was a doll, and ran to the car,” Harris said.
Meanwhile, she added the father’s girlfriend sprayed mace at Jace’s older sister before they took off with the little boy.
The violent abduction triggered an AMBER Alert.
“Jace is my baby. He’s fun loving. He likes to play, he likes to jump,” Janet Mitchell, Jace’s grandmother, said.
Shortly after 6 p.m., the father and his girlfriend gave themselves up.
CHILD SAFE: Jace Brunt is now in the hands of @WycoSheriff. @ksamberalert over pic.twitter.com/4UG4MpzCVo
— Andres Gutierrez (@AFGutierrez) August 4, 2017
The Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office took care of little Jace until he was reunited with his family.
It’s an ending that Major Kelli Bailiff said she has seen more than 500 times in her law enforcement career but each one is just like her first.
“Your end result is this moment right here, having a child located safe and being able to put him back into the arms of his mother,” Bailiff said.
Now that Harris has her precious son back, there’s one thing she wants to see happen to the pair who allegedly did this.
“I think they should sit in jail and think about what they did,” Harris said.
Charges are pending.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to show the child's last name is Brunt after an update from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
