A routine holiday shopping trip to a Walmart near Portland, Oregon, turned violent just days before Christmas when a man allegedly attempted to kidnap a child from a stroller. The child’s father intervened, and the confrontation ended with a knife on the floor and the suspect, 37-year-old Denis Omar Villalobos, under arrest.
According to multiple reports, on the evening of December 21, 2025, at the Walmart Supercenter on North Adair Street in Cornelius, a small town about 30 miles west of Portland, multiple 911 callers reported a man trying to grab a child from a stroller inside the store. Deputies say the suspect had been following the family through the aisles and appeared focused on the child before suddenly lunging toward the stroller.
