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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou are not going to believe this. Look up Caden Rex Speight.
So I receive an amber alert last night for a young man who was kidnapped. Usually it's small children, but this boy was seventeen and white. Looks like Opi's cousin.
This morning the details claimed that he texted his mother to tell her he was shot and was taken in a white van by four hispanic males. This is not the usual details for an abduction. Usually it involves a parent and small children.
So, now I'm hearing there was no evidence of being abducted by hispanic males.
Now the Update:
Caden has been located safe in Williston. This investigation is still ongoing. More updates will be provided as they become available.
If it's another fraudulent, racist claim. I hope he spends time in jail.
eppur_se_muova
(42,511 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,585 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,999 posts)She was the one who drowned her two boys by driving her car into a pond, and then claiming that a black man abducted them.
Baitball Blogger
(52,719 posts)SheilaAnn
(10,779 posts)Mariana
(15,630 posts)The BS story was that he was shot and abducted.
SheilaAnn
(10,779 posts)Iggo
(50,052 posts)I can think of one, and they DEFINITELY would have had to shoot him first lol.
mcar
(46,356 posts)Sounds like the initial reporting was BS. From our local paper:
At noon on Friday, the Sheriffs Office shared that there was no evidence to support an abduction, but that the teens disappearance still was being investigated in connection with a shooting.
Primarily, at this time, there is no evidence to indicate that he was taken by four Hispanic men in a light-colored van, said Zach Moore, public information officer with the Marion County Sheriffs Office at the time. It is possible that he left the incident location on a black bicycle with a red and grey tent, which he purchased at Walmart on SW 19th Avenue Road, in Ocala.
reACTIONary
(7,290 posts)... and an attempt to run away from it.
sinkingfeeling
(58,036 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,719 posts)sinkingfeeling
(58,036 posts)parents won't allow him to be questioned by LE and he shot himself, very minor injury, in the leg.
https://www.facebook.com/mcsoflorida/videos/hello-marion-county-citizens-sheriff-woods-here-i-know-many-of-you-have-been-dee/833579742509687/
Baitball Blogger
(52,719 posts)It sounds like they're downplaying the fact that he tried to pin it on FOUR HISPANICS. This is bordering on a hate crime because it doesn't take much to trigger people these days.
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