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Child Found Safe After CHP Issues Statewide Amber Alert, Family Says

SAN PEDRO (CBSLA.com) — Family members of a 1-year-old boy, who was the subject of a statewide Amber Alert Monday, said they have been told by detectives that the child has been found and is safe.

Immediately after hearing the good news, the mother of Jayden Santiago broke down in tears inside her San Pedro home.

"I got a text message. They have him in custody," Christy Martinez, the child's mother, told KCAL9's Peter Daut.

Martinez said the child's father, Giovany Santiago-Enriquez, had been caring for the boy at his Long Beach home.

The 37-year-old Santiago-Enriquez is accused of breaking into Martinez's home early Monday morning and stabbing Martinez's new boyfriend with a pocketknife.

"He ended up stabbing him six times in the chest and three times in the head," Martinez said.

"Yeah, telling them, 'Die! Die! Die!' " Octavio Colia, the child's uncle, said of the attack.

Colia showed Daut the aftermath, including blood that covered the bed and sheets, where his sister and her boyfriend slept.

Colia said when he tried to intervene, he was stabbed.

"He tried to run me over with the car, but I got on top of the hood and he tried to throw me off here and there," Colia said.

The boy's family says the child was left in the car during the incident, and an Amber Alert was issued by afternoon with authorities describing Santiago-Enriquez as "armed and dangerous."

Several hours later, the child's mother says she got a call that both Santiago-Enriquez and Jayden were in custody in Mexico. The family planned to travel there to pick up the child.

"Thank you everyone that helped. Thank you everyone that shared the photo. Thank you for bringing my baby home," she said.

Meanwhile, the stabbing victim, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital, where he was listed as stable.

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