Pennsylvania authorities have released harrowing video footage shown at the trial of an armed man who took a 2-year-old girl hostage in her own home, while her mother begged and pleaded for her release during an hours-long standoff with police.A jury convicted Antonio Hammond on Tuesday of kidnapping, possession of a firearm and several other offenses, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office announced.The trial footage captures the early minutes of the May 30, 2023, standoff between police and Hammond, who was holed up inside a Harrisburg home.The mother, Michele Peters, began recording Hammond as he held her crying, autistic daughter, while police officers outside ordered him to surrender.Hammond repeatedly told the frantic mother that the police were "trying to kill me" and to "trust in God" as she begged him to let her daughter go.FBI RESCUES MISSING TEEN FROM FLORIDA HOTEL AFTER MONTH-LONG HUNT FOR ACCUSED KIDNAPPERAntonio Hammond was convicted Tuesday of kidnapping, stemming from a May 30, 2023, incident in which he took a 2-year-old girl hostage in her Pennsylvania home.
(Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office)"I love people.I love kids," Hammond is heard saying in the video."I don't know what you did.
I don't even know you," Peters pleaded."Give me my baby, please! You're scaring her.""You've got my pride and my joy and I don't know you," the distressed mother added.When Hammond ordered her to keep filming him with her cell phone, she responded, "I am recording.
I'm doing everything you asked me to do."As officers surrounded the residence, Hammond repeatedly shouted to the police outside, "I didn't do anything." Peters yelled back to the officers that Hammond had walked into her apartment and taken her child hostage.Meanwhile, officers continued ordering Hammond to step outside with his hands up.At one point in the footage, the phone appears to drop to the floor, leaving the audio muffled.KIDNAPPING SURVIVOR, ONCE DISMISSED AS A LIAR, NOW RETRA...