Two kids rescued after parental kidnapping

Tonight, two young kids are on their way back from Ohio after they were allegedly abducted by their own father and smuggled across state lines. That father later taking his own life. There's a lot to unpack here. Let's get live to Fox News' Jessica Dupnik. She has the very latest on a story that we've been following all night. Jessica. That's right. We have been tracking this one, Rupin. We're happy to report that the four and six-year-old little boys are safe tonight. We checked in with Inkster Police. They were sending folks down to Ohio, Norwalk, Ohio. That's just near Sandusky to go bring those boys back home here to Inkster. A little bit of activity out here behind us. We'll let that pass. I want to show you where this all started earlier today in Inkster, in an Inkster neighborhood. Apparently, the suspect, the man you spoke of there earlier, Rup, he broke into his ex's home. he pistol whipped her, tied her to a bed, and then abducted his two little boys, again, four and six years old. Now, while this was all happening, he was telling family members that he had the boys at Rouge Park in Detroit and that he was having suicidal thoughts. Well, that was a way to lead investigators in the wrong direction, but it did lead to a massive manhunt in Rouge Park earlier today. Come to find out, officers were able to use flock cameras and other investigative tools to track these little boys to a cornfield in Norwalk, Ohio. Now, sadly, they were able to FaceTime with those little boys. Investigators were, and the boys said, we're in a cornfield and dad is dead. And they said that he was shot in the head, later learning that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The positive note here, those boys are okay. We talked to one of the lieutenants over at Inkster PD today about the whole situation. I can tell you that I spoke with a social worker at a local hospital and the nurses and social work staff were with the children and were actively monitoring them and giving them care and support. They were able to speak with their mother and establish phone contact home and know that they're on their way home. Inkster police chief saying earlier today that the reason for all of this the man was upset over a breakup with the child's mother and that's what started all of this. Now at last check with Inkster police they were headed down to Ohio. The boys were getting checked out medically. They are okay and then they'll be heading back here to Inkster at some point this evening to be reunited with their family reporting live in Inkster, Jessica Dupnik, Fox 2 News. I'm glad those kids are physically okay but that trauma that they may have gone through uh you can't even imagine the fact that this father apparently took his own life there's a cell phone they're left there in a cornfield to fend for themselves yeah and the chief we asked about that, he said you know that FaceTime call just putting yourself in that situation these little boys don't know where they're at. They're in a strange place. And obviously they witnessed in some capacity what had happened to their father. We really are thinking those little boys tonight. We certainly are. Jessica Dupnik, thanks for us live tonight in Inkster. Thank you, Thank you, Jess.