California Police are praising a Target Store employee for helping bring a child's kidnapping ordeal to an end, before it even started.

"When I first spotted him in the store, I thought he was going to shoplift," said 22-year-old Roxanna Ramirez, who followed him around, watched him on surveillance cameras, and even spoke to him.

She wrote down his license plate number, and didn't think about it again until that night, when her girlfriend told her a child had been abducted — and Ramirez recognized the car as the one she'd been watching.

(WATCH the video below, or READ the article from KTVU)

"When I first spotted him in the store, I thought he was going to shoplift," said 22-year-old Roxanna Ramirez, who followed him around, watched him on surveillance cameras, and even spoke to him.

She wrote down his license plate number, and didn't think about it again until that night, when her girlfriend told her a child had been abducted — and Ramirez recognized the car as the one she'd been watching.

(WATCH the video below, or READ the article from KTVU)

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