SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Springfield man is accused of following a woman and her toddler to their home and attempting to drag the woman toward a vehicle after seeing her at Target.

Online court dockets state Joshua Allen York, born in 1995, has been charged with first-degree kidnapping — facilitating a felony — inflicting injury — terrorizing; first-degree stalking; and first-degree child endangerment.

The probable cause statement says the incident occurred when a woman and her 2-year-old son entered Target on East Primrose at about 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 15.

York allegedly entered shortly before the victims and “wandered around the store” until he saw the woman and followed her through the aisles, the statement says.

When the woman left the store in her vehicle and York left in his vehicle, a

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