Michigan Boy, 14, Uses Slingshot to Prevent Sister, 8, From Being Kidnapped
A heroic Michigan teenager was able to prevent his younger sister from being kidnapped by firing off a slingshot at the would-be kidnapper, according to Michigan State Police.
Police said at a May 15 press conference that the 8-year-old girl, who has not been identified, was hunting for mushrooms in her backyard in the city of Alpena on May 10 when she felt the alleged assailant “grab her.”
According to Lt. John Grimshaw with the Michigan State Police Alpena Post, the 17-year-old suspect entered through the woods onto the young girl’s property, and came up behind her before grabbing her “like you’d see in a movie, his hand over the mouth, arm around the waist.”…