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Louisville mother abducted with children shares harrowing bank robbery survival story
WDRB ^ | 08/11/2025 | Adi Schanie

Posted on 08/12/2025 5:29:58 AM PDT by DFG

A Louisville woman was abducted from her home near The Oxmoor Center, along with her two children before being forced to withdraw $20,000 from a local bank at knifepoint Friday morning, police said.

The suspect, Armond Langford, 32, was arrested later that day and faces multiple charges including robbery, kidnapping, and assault.

Friday morning, Jennifer Strong was making breakfast for her children when she heard her back door open twice.

A man, later identified as Langford, entered her home armed with a knife.

“He had a knife …. And he started to yell 'how many people are in this house,'" Strong said. "I put my hands up. I told him not to hurt us."

Langford ordered Strong, her 11-year-old son, and her 7-year-old son into a car. Strong sat in the driver’s seat with her older son beside her, and Langford sat in the back with her younger son.

With a knife pressed to Strong’s throat, Langford demanded she drive to the PNC Bank on Shelbyville Road near Oxmoor Center.

“My oldest son he had his arms around my neck, and he was begging the guy in the backseat not to kill me," Strong said. "I asked him if I could reach around and hold my youngest son’s hand, and he said yes."

Langford instructed Strong to drive faster, but she refused, saying there were many police in the neighborhood.

Strong, a true crime enthusiast, said she tried to gain Langford’s trust by sharing personal information.

“I told the guy my oldest son was autistic, to please not hurt us, that my youngest son was very scared,” she said. “If this is gonna happen fighting him isn't the right way to do it – he has a knife, and I have nothing."

At the bank, Strong knocked on the window as Langford threatened the teller.

“I need $20,000, or I will kill her now,” Strong recounted Langford’s threat.

Langford then ordered the children out of the car. Strong feared she might never see them again.

“I yelled out to the car that I loved them, and I said a prayer and I grabbed my hand and I grabbed my chest and I said to myself this is it this is what it feels like to die – I told the bank 'he’s killing me now, he’s stabbing me again' and then they came out,” Strong said.

The bank tellers spread $20,000 on the ground. Langford grabbed the cash and fled.

Strong was taken to the hospital with stab wounds that came within centimeters of her lung. She was released Friday and reunited with her family.

“It was the best moment of life, it will stay the best moment of my life,” she said.

Langford was arrested just after 4:30 p.m. Friday near Best Buy, about a mile from the bank.

Police said Langford broke into Strong’s home, then abducted her and the children before the robbery. The children were not physically harmed but were traumatized by the ordeal.

The family said this never would have happened if Langford had served his full sentence.

In 2024, Langford was sentenced to 14 years in prison for burglary and robbery charges but was released early on shock probation.

“I want to know how they’re sleeping at night right now,” Strong said.

Her husband Brandon Strong agreed, adding, "You caused this."

The physical wounds from the attack will heal faster than the emotional scars.

Another child, Genevieve, was in the home at the time, but was asleep upstairs during the attack.

“My little brother has autism and it breaks my heart for him that he’ll never be able to express what he has seen the way we all can, and that’s heartbreaking,” she said.

Strong’s husband, Brandon, was not home during the incident.

“That’s what I’m kinda losing sleep about — me not being here,” Brandon Strong said.

The family has already gotten rid of the car used in the crime because it is too traumatic to be around it.

The day after the attack, Strong’s youngest son turned eight. The family celebrated, grateful everyone was alive to blow out the candles.

“Everyday is a blessing, take nothing for granted,” Strong said.

Langford is being held on a $1 million bond and faces multiple charges, including five counts of robbery, one count of kidnapping an adult, two counts of kidnapping a minor, and one count of assault.

“He deserves the same terror that he inflicted on us,” Strong said.

Langford is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 19.


TOPICS: US: Kentucky
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Video of perp in court:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q87Du8sAfHo&t=46s

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1954948122234290281

https://x.com/CMPiagentini/status/1954118212649410730

1 posted on 08/12/2025 5:29:58 AM PDT by DFG
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2 posted on 08/12/2025 5:30:38 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

What a poorly written story.
You’d think they didnt want to report that he stabbed her maybe multiple times.
And he’s charged with “ assault”
Was it a mostly friendly stabbing?


3 posted on 08/12/2025 5:38:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (M:“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: DFG

For supposedly only being 13% of the population, blacks sure do overachieve when it comes to crime.


4 posted on 08/12/2025 5:40:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DFG

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1954948122234290281

Libs of TikTok

UNREAL: In 2024, Armond Langford was sentenced to 14 years for robbing 22 people at ATMs

He was then RELEASED from prison by Democrat-appointed Judge Jessica Green after serving ONLY 6 months.

A few days ago, Langford allegedly kidnapped two kids and their mother, whom he also stabbed. He then forced her to drive to a bank and demanded $20,000 from the bank teller

He was arrested after a six-hour manhunt and now has a $1 million bond.


5 posted on 08/12/2025 5:45:35 AM PDT by DFG
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Another one of Satan’s fr’kn animals running loose in the country...... AND the punishment should be changed to FIRING SQUAD! ....imho


6 posted on 08/12/2025 5:48:37 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: silverleaf

What a poorly written story

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Local TV News journalism. Where Junior College dropouts go to work.


7 posted on 08/12/2025 5:51:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: DFG

Judge Jessica Green is also a member of the 13%, so she probably does not care at all what happened to this woman.


8 posted on 08/12/2025 5:56:59 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: DFG

It may go nowhere, but a federal lawsuit should be filed against this state judge.

There is no excuse for that release. 22 people robbed is not an isolated incident.


9 posted on 08/12/2025 6:00:32 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Agreed. And the judge’s bank accounts should be scrutinized to see if she received some theft money. Even if there’s no there there, punish her with the process.


10 posted on 08/12/2025 6:22:19 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

That judge is a menace to society and should be immediately removed from the bench.


11 posted on 08/12/2025 6:23:21 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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She was appointed to the bench by Andy Beshear to fill the vacancy.

Beshear has used his powers of appointment (which do not require approval in Kentucky) to put ultra leftists in all facets of Kentucky government, including medical boards, etc. Even though he gets nothing through the legislature, his ultra-left philosophy is still impacting Kentucky.


12 posted on 08/12/2025 6:32:21 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: DFG

Must read, pertinent to the current news cycle (i.e., DC):

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/someone-dropped-the-ball-legal-expert-discusses-2024-release-of-alleged-bank-robber-armond-langford/417-dcbf420c-d139-48ec-9038-dba39be32065


13 posted on 08/12/2025 6:35:17 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: DFG

When judges start getting late night visits from angry honest people this crap will stop.

And it’s going to come to that.

L


14 posted on 08/12/2025 7:16:38 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
She was appointed to the bench by Andy Beshear to fill the vacancy.

We were visiting our son at Ft. Campbell before the election and it seemed that Dan Cameron was the far better candidate but Beshear had the name recognition. Too bad.

15 posted on 08/12/2025 7:56:35 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: DFG

If I were Brandon Strong, I’d dream about hanging Langford high every night for the rest of my life. He’s blessed to have a smart, courageous and tough wife.


16 posted on 08/12/2025 10:56:38 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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