No, mommy! I cannot go outside. I’m scared,” the grandfather overheard the tot tell his mom Friday, just three days after the bizarre clash with accused kidnapper Darlyn Thomas.

A 2-year-old child was almost kidnapped while inside a Bronx apartment building’s laundry room on Tuesday, according to the NYPD. It happened on East 180th Street around 6:50 p.m. A woman was accused of following the toddler and their 23-year-old mother into the laundry room,

The victim was shot in the seventh-floor hallway of the Saint Mary's Houses on Westchester Avenue just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.