Details on Clay Moore's abduction.
He has been found and is safe, but the suspect is still at large.
He only has minor cuts and bruises, and is at the local hospital where he's just being observed and answering questions.
From TBO.com: "A massive manhunt by air and ground for Clay ended when the 13-year-old was located in the rural Kibler Ranch area, as many as 20 miles from his bus stop. The boy told authorities he managed to break free from his bounds and escape from his captor into the woods, Wells said. He ran to a farm, where he borrowed a cell phone and called his mother.
Wells decline to go into specifics about the kidnapper’s possible motives.
“It all seems evil to me, no matter what he was plotting,’’ Wells said.
Wells urged the public to keep on look out for an older model red pickup the kidnapper was last seen driving and to report any suspicious activities.
“My best guess tells me we are dealing with somebody who is familiar with this area,’’ he said.
The man who allegedly abducted Clay may have tried to go after children in his neighborhood before, says a witness to this morning’s incident.
Rabah Jaffal, a 14-year-old seventh grader at Lincoln Middle School who shares a bus stop with Clay, says he’s seen this truck before in the neighborhood and believes it is the same truck that chased his sister a month or two ago.
He says his sister and friends were playing a game called “manhunt” when this man came up in the truck and chased them."
The suspect is an older man with a tan or dark complexion, driving a red or maroon older model Ford Ranger pickup. People in the area are asked to continue looking for it and reporting anything matching the descriptions of either the man or the truck, to police.




Comments
Thank goodness Clay is okay!
But I hope they find the kidnapper ASAP, before he does this to some other kid. people liie this guy do not deserve to be free on the streets.
Posted by: Christine | February 23, 2007 5:52 PM
OMG, how terrifying!! Thank goodness he's found and okay!
Posted by: Leigh | February 23, 2007 7:51 PM
I saw this on our local news and all I can say is that is some bold MoFo to abduct a kid in broad daylight at the bus stop! I pray they find him soon so he doesn't get a hold of another kid. That ending might not be a happy one. :(
Posted by: Kelly | February 24, 2007 3:27 AM