A dramatic scene played out in a Philadelphia neighborhood after a man invited a little girl into his home, then shot at her mother, leading to an intense barricade situation that ended in the suspect’s arrest.

According to local news outlets, police were called to a home in the Ogontz neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, where an 8-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped.

The child’s aunt, Nyliah Briggs, said she saw her niece playing outside with other kids when the man pulled the child into his home by her arm, then locked the door behind him.

Briggs said that she and the girl’s mother rushed to rescue the girl. They knocked on the door, and when the man came out, the mother maced him. In response, the suspect opened fire.

“He was shooting at my sister, her mother,” Briggs told WPVI. “

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