SHERWOOD, Ark. — A quick trip to Walmart was a long and emotional night for Mikayla Ferguson and her family.
While walking to her truck in the parking lot around 7:00 p.m. Monday with her mother and daughter, she buckled her daughter into her car seat when she realized a man was inside the car.
"All you... saw was a hand and a bald guy," Ferguson said. "I was trying to get her out [and] started screaming for help. My mom started screaming for help."
Ferguson said she had to struggle with the man, but was able to get her child out eventually.
All this happened while she was seven months pregnant with her second child.
"I was sitting there trying to get a guy off of touching my daughter," Ferguson said.
While struggling to get her daughter out of the truck, Ferguson said she also struggled to get help from bystanders.
"There's a group of kids at Walmart that works there that I ran up to screaming, crying to call 911," Ferguson said. "They just looked at me. They looked at me like I was stupid, pulled out their phones and started videoing me."
When someone eventually called 911, Ferguson said her mother and an older man held the doors closed so the man inside couldn't escape before police arrived.
"Last night... it felt like forever," Ferguson said. "I told one of the police officers [that] I don't know if it was five minutes. I don't know if it was five hours."
Ferguson said she was thankful for the quick response from first responders and appreciated how they handled the situation.
"Officers took the male into custody and identified him as Timothy Caudill," Sherwood Police Capt. Jamie Hartman said. "[He's] a 58-year-old from Jacksonville, after he initially lied about his name."
Caudill faces several charges, including breaking and entering, false imprisonment, first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, third-degree assault, public intoxication, and obstructing governmental operations.
Hartman said the incident is still under investigation, and additional charges are possible.
"At that moment, the moment you touched my daughter, it was over with," Ferguson said.
Caudle pleaded not guilty to the charges against him Tuesday morning and is out on bond until his next hearing on March 26.
The judge also issued a no-contact order between him and the victim's family.