A 2-year-old girl has been located after being kidnapped from an apartment in the city's Grand Boulevard neighborhood by an armed group early Wednesday morning.

Chicago police said Wednesday night that Attumn Shelley had been located. Further information was not released.

Police said three people armed with guns forced their way into the building and then an apartment unit in the 4800 block of South Michigan Avenue just before 5 a.m. The group included a woman known to the child and two men, police said. They took the child before stealing a gray Nissan Kick with the license plate ER12467 belonging to the child's grandmother, her purse and her house keys, and fled with the child in the stolen car.

Attumn's paternal grandmother, who did not want to be named, said the child was abducted by her mother, who struggles with mental health. 

The grandmother said it was her home into which the group broke to take Attumn, and her car that was stolen. 

"They were able to get Attumn at gunpoint, they put a gun to my sister and my brother's head. About four guys and the mother of the child and they came in and just basically took her," the grandmother said. 

The grandmother said she has custody of her granddaughter and an emergency order of protection against Attumn's mother.

"She's suicidal. She tried to hurt the kid, my granddaughter. Tried to kill her. Which is the reason that I have her now," she said.

She also said that shortly after the abduction, she got an email that amounted to a ransom note, demanding she not contact police or the media or take any action. She said she did so anyway because she fears for her granddaughter's safety.

"At this point, I just want my grandbaby and I want her in jail because I'm scared she's going to hurt my grandbaby," the grandmother said. 

• Chicago
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• Kidnapping