New video shows person of interest after newborn abandoned in tote bag in Bronx
LONGWOOD, Bronx (WABC) -- A new clue was unveiled Monday as police search for the person who abandoned a baby girl in a tote bag in the Bronx.
The crying newborn was found in front of a home on Reverend James Polite Avenue around 6 a.m. Sunday, wrapped in a blanket and inside the bag.
Police have now released a video of a person they want to talk to after the newborn was found.
For 2 minutes and 20 seconds, the video shows the person walking back and forth at 5:36 a.m. before entering a driveway, leaving the bag with the infant girl inside at the doorstep.
The person walks away in the direction she originally came from.
The baby was taken to Jacobi Hospital and is said to be stable.
A man who lives nearby was at his mosque when he got a phone call from a friend who passed by and heard the baby crying.
He ran home and found the child wrapped in a blanket inside the bag.
"I called 911, it was cold, I put the baby inside, I didn't want to mess with any evidence, but it was too cold, I had to take the baby from outside," Mamadou Hafizjallow said. "It's amazing, I never thought something like this would happen in my life, but you know it's life."
The home is next to a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of family services.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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