This Week's Security Officer Heroes!

This Week’s Security Officer Heroes!

Missouri City TX - A security officer in Missouri City is thankful he called the police when he saw something suspicious early Friday morning.

On July 22 around 2 a.m., Hector Adame was sitting in his truck during his shift when he spotted a silver Dodge Pickup truck circling the block. He says the truck parked in one spot for a few minutes, then moved to behind his truck.

"Once the driver did that, I sat up, and I heard somebody on the phone," says Adame. I got out and turned on the light on my phone. Then the man walked out of the truck and went into someone’s yard."

Adame says he watched this unknown man as he went to a dark spot near the side of a house, and emerged with a little girl, later identified as 11-year-old Imani Stephens. He says the man and Imani got in the Dodge truck and drove off. After taking a picture of the truck, Hector called the police.

Missouri City officers showed up a minute later, and after speaking to Adame, knocked on a few doors to find out where that little girl had come from.

Adame describes seeing Kimberly Wright, Imani’s grandmother, shocked after finding out from officers the child was gone.

"I can almost imagine my son…somebody comes and takes my son, 2 or 3 in the morning? I'd be devastated," says Adame.

After an extensive search, local police and FBI agents were able to locate Imani Stephens safely in Southeast Houston Friday night.

The girl had been taken against her will and without permission of her parents. She had been kidnapped.

During the search, police issued an Amber Alert for Stephens with two different men as persons of interest.

Police say those men cooperated with police and were no longer considered a part of the investigation. FOX 26’s Damali Keith spoke with Wright on Friday, who says she believes Imani was influenced by an older man she met online just two weeks before.

FOX 26 Reporter Damali Keith spoke with the missing girl's grandmother, who just wants to have her back as authorities believe she is in danger.

Adame says helping little Imani was personal. He tells Fox 26 he felt a personal debt was paid. In 2000, he was shot and suffered serious injuries in Southeast Houston. An unknown man put Adame in his car and sent him to Memorial Hermann for treatment.

"I saw the light. I died on the table three times that night," says Adame. "I didn’t find out who the man that helped me was until two years later. He was my guardian angel. I feel that if he did that for me, I owe something. If I can do something to help somebody...I'll do it."

Adame also spoke to Wright who tells him she was thankful he called the police about Imani.

NashvilleTN "He's got a gun!" someone shouted as a total of 6 first responders, including police officers, were working to detain another man in downtown Nashville Friday night.

A nearby security officer who had watched a man pull a gun from a backpack tackled him and held him until officers took over.

The dramatic moment happened on Broadway, one of Music City's busiest streets, according to Metro Nashville Police (MNPD), as first reported by our sister station WZTV.

A MNPD release says a little after 11:30 p.m. Friday, 6 first responders, including officers, were working to detain a man, though from the release it's unclear why.

They say a man later identified as Cristopher Quintero "interfered." Police say officers told him to get back.

A citizen yelled that Quintero had a gun,' the release says.

That's when MNPD says a nearby security guard at the Lucky Bastard Saloon took action. The release says the unidentified security officer jumped onto him when he saw him pull a gun from a bag, causing him to drop it,"

Police took Quintero into custody and charged him with 6 counts of aggravated assault against a first responder with a deadly weapon, as well as unlawful gun possession, possession of a gun under the influence, public intoxication and marijuana possession.