Attempted Kidnapping Ends With Arrest In Redwood City: Police

REDWOOD CITY, CA — A man was subdued and arrested Thursday after police allege he tried to pull a student out of a classroom at Sequoia High School.

According to Redwood City police, staffers reported a suspicious man at the high school around 2 p.m. Investigators said he entered a classroom and grabbed a boy, attempting to pull him from the room, when a teacher physically intervened. The man fled the classroom and told staffers he had a gun, police said.

Officers searched the campus and saw the man leaving the building on the west side of campus. Police said the man resisted arrest, and officers deployed a "less-lethal" device to subdue him. The victim was evaluated for minor injuries at the hospital, and police said he had punched a hole in the wall of a school bathroom before he was taken into custody.

He was cleared from the hospital and booked in the Maguire Correctional Facility on suspicion of attempted kidnapping, burglary, child endangerment, obstruction, vandalism and trespassing. Police later identified the suspect as 24-year-old Trey Duus.