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Judi Lynn

(160,554 posts) Wed May 4, 2016, 06:51 PM May 2016

California teens abducted after prom but break free from captor

Source: Reuters

California teens abducted after prom but break free from captor

By Alex Dobuzinskis

May 4, 2016

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 22-year-old man with a handgun kidnapped a teenage couple over the weekend in Southern California after their high school prom, but the abduction was foiled when the boy wrestled away the firearm and hit the suspect with it, police said on Wednesday.

Jared T. James appeared in court on Wednesday in Victorville, about 60 miles (100 km) northeast of Los Angeles, to face charges of kidnapping and attempted murder, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office said.

It was not immediately clear if James had entered a plea and an attorney for him could not be located.

James, who had known the 17-year-old girl since their childhood, approached her and her boyfriend on Saturday outside the boy's home in Victorville, the Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

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California teens abducted after prom but break free from captor (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2016 OP

22.. hmm.. That's the last thing I'd come up with to do for kicks. What do we do with people like vkkv May 2016 #1

Home incarceration and counseling. He probably had a tramatic childhood. Akicita May 2016 #2

Wow, that's like right out of "Back to the Future"! Peace Patriot May 2016 #3

vkkv

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1. 22.. hmm.. That's the last thing I'd come up with to do for kicks. What do we do with people like

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 07:01 PM

May 2016

this?

I'm not pro-death penalty but violent people need to be removed from society. Prison won't do this guy any good. He's done.

Akicita

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2. Home incarceration and counseling. He probably had a tramatic childhood.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu May 5, 2016, 12:25 AM

May 2016

Peace Patriot

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3. Wow, that's like right out of "Back to the Future"!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu May 5, 2016, 03:03 AM

May 2016

George McFly becomes a hero to his sweetheart Lorraine by punching out the bully Biff for his rude advances on Lorraine at the prom, and thus Marty McFly's parents get together to engender Marty who has traveled back in time by accident and almost foiled his own parents' meeting.

I mean--serious as this was in reality, for the teenage abductees--I immediately thought of the effects of the boy's heroics on the girl, as in that iconic movie. I hope everything works out for them!

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