Posted on 01/21/2013 3:59:16 AM PST by lowbridge
It was a night of mayhem and bravery that central Michigan will not soon forget.
A young woman who was abducted at gunpoint made a daring escape Wednesday night from her rapist into a house full of kids that was later set on fire by her attacker, police said.
The suspect, identified as Eric Lee Ramsey, 30, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., was later fatally shot by police after he got into a series of hit and runs with police vehicles in a sanitation truck he had stolen. But before he died, he apparently tweeted that he was going to be shot.
The incident began Wednesday when Ramsey allegedly kidnapped the woman from Central Michigan University's campus, and brought her to a home where he bound and sexually assaulted her, according to a statement from Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski.
Ramsey then put the woman in the back of a car, retrieved two gas cans and began driving. He purportedly told the woman “he was going to take her life,” Mioduszewski said. After hearing that, the woman jumped out of the car and ran to a nearby home, she told police.
Eric Ramsey, a Michigan Dept. of Corrections parolee, was shot and killed by police after allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting a CMU student, setting a house on fire and stealing a sanitation truck that he rammed into police vehicles.
Alone inside that Lincoln Township home were a 14-year-old boy and his 11-year-old sister and 2-year-old brother. The teenager, James Persyn III, told Mlive.com that he let the woman in, locked the door and grabbed his hunting knife.
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See, see! He Tweeted! A tool of rapists. All tweeters need to be banned. Its just like a barrel shroud!
How does one just get in a sanitation truck and drive off? I can't imagine they are just lined up on the street with keys in ignition. Also how convenient he trashed his own car and then boom out of nowhere he just so happens to find a vehicle unlocked with keys in ignition to steal. This almost sounds like an episode of bait car, uh I mean bait garbage truck.
Just another woman victimized by an opportunistic freak who took advantage of the campus being a gun free zone?
They will probably limit the amount of fuel purchased from this point when filling up one’s gas can...
But like you said, let’s not let the students carry a CCW for protection — that would be totally wrong (sarc)
The MSM only tells stories that will support their agenda.
The point is: the teenager didn't need a gun to protect the victim. He was just as effective with a knife.
Just another woman victimized by an opportunistic freak who took advantage of the campus being a gun free zone?
Free Killing Zone.
“when Ramsey allegedly kidnapped the woman from Central Michigan University’s campus”
...a gun-free zone, I guess. Easy pickins’
You ask too many questions!
The MSM asks all the questions you need to know, if the gov’t wanted you to know more, they would have told the MSM, this is especially true in politics, but prevails across the board.
Ours is not to reason why, trust the gov’t or die!
Strange headline, because the story doesn’t make it sound as though the knife was ever used or even came into play.
The woman owes her life to that boy letting her into the house, even though it was a dangerous thing to do with 2 other small children in the home.
Of course if he’d had a hunting rifle instead of a hunting knife the house probably wouldn’t have been torched and a lot of cars wouldn’t need body work, but hey...
CC
Had the man been determined to get into the house, he would have killed all four.
It was quite likely the fear of the home being protected by a gun that prevented the perp from coming in.
The boy needed a gun. A 14 year old in Texas used the family AR-15 to fight off two perps from his home and little sister, just two weeks ago.
I’d rather fix the car and the house then have my 14 yr old live with the fact he’d killed someone. Even a scumbag such as this.
They would have been in trouble if they guy had tried to get in the house, but he didnt.
“... the woman owes her life to that boy...”
She does owe her life to that boy. What a horrible decision. Let the screaming woman into his home or keep the door closed to protect his younger siblings. He was faced with a grown man dilemma and thank goodness all is well.
No one said anything about pulling the trigger. As in most cases simply being able to show the weapon might well suffice. The punk may have wanted to die by cop but may not have been so keen on being taken out by a schoolboy.
No more phone calls.....we have a winner.
Unfortunately, the screaming woman may be in on the home invasion, with her purpose being a decoy to get you to open the door.
It’s happened before.
Mornin’ Crip.
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