
A young boy kidnapped from his Atlanta home sang a gospel song for nearly three hours until the suspect kicked him out of the car.
The man used cash to lure little Willie Myrick close enough for him to grab and shove into his car the night of March 31. The boy, now 10 years old, repeated the song "Every Praise" during the hellish ride.
The tune sent the suspect into a cursing fit and he stopped the car near East Point.
"He opened the door and threw me out," Myrick told a television station in Atlanta, WXIA-TV. "He told me not to tell anyone."
Myrick did the opposite and told the world what happened.
The song Myrick chanted over and over again belongs to Hezekiah Walker, a Grammy-award winning gospel singer. When the artist learned of the alleged kidnapping, he hopped on a plane from New York City to Atlanta.
"I just want to hug him and tell him I love him," Walker told WXIA-TV.
The singer met with Myrick and his friends, family and whole congregation at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in southwest Atlanta on the boy's 10th birthday. They all sang the life-saving song together as tears rolled down Myrick's cheeks.
The meeting was also attended by organizers of a coalition on the hunt for the suspect, who is still on the loose. The group of churches, civic organizations and businesses handed out flyers with a sketch of the perp.


The meeting was a celebration, but also a town hall meeting and warning to parents and children of the dangers still roaming the streets.
"Our concern is not just the city of Atlanta boundaries," organizer Michael Langford told WSB-TV earlier this week. "It's the society in general. It's metro Atlanta. We've seen a number of attacks."

Langford is worried about a repeated spree of missing and murdered children cases that happened in Atlanta in 1979 and 1980, he said.
"We want to say to folk, if you harm our children, not only will the police be looking for you, the community will be on your trail, too," Langford added.
A $10,000 reward is being offered on the arrest of man, described as a male suspect in his mid- to late-20s with dreadlocks. He was driving a gray four-door Honda Civic with no interior carpeting and an exposed metal floor.