Neighbor: Appearance of stroller seemed odd

Staff and wire reports

In the two weeks he’s lived in Clovis, Will Larson said he never knew Rayshaun Parson. But he thought it was unusual that he saw Parson walking around without a baby, then Saturday, “she had a stroller.”

Parson, 21, of Clovis, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of kidnapping and is in the Curry County Detention Center on $250,000 bail. Lubbock and FBI investigators interviewed her earlier in the day, authorities said.

She’s accused of kidnapping newborn Mychael Darthard-Dawodu Saturday from Lubbock Covenant Hospital.

The infant was kidnapped early Saturday by a woman posing as a medical worker, who walked out of Covenant Lakeside Hospital with the 5-pound baby hidden in her purse, police said.

People who lived near Parson’s house on 1021 1/2 Wallace Street mostly said they knew nothing about her and expressed shock when they heard about the case.

“I was out here last night,” said Zach Stephenson, who was visiting a friend on Wallace. “I know the police were in this area at about 2 or 3 a.m.”

District Attorney Matt Chandler said Lubbock police received a tip that helped authorities find the baby in a house on the 2900 block of Gidding Street. Chandler believed the person at that house was a friend of Parson’s.

Lubbock police Lt. Scott Hudgens said the baby was found about 3 a.m. Sunday.

Don Reid said he and his wife Zane were out of town until Sunday morning, but they’d never known much to happen during the 42 years they’ve lived on that block of Gidding Street.

“This is a pretty quiet area, other than the people going to the (North Plains) Mall,” Reid said. “We have a little bit of that, but not too much.”