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  • Texas man's crime spree ends in Oklahoma woman's death

    08/05/2010 12:08:47 AM PDT · by smokingfrog · 51 replies · 1+ views
    newsok ^ | Aug 5, 2010 | JANELLE STECKLEIN
    A Texas sheriff called an Oklahoma grandmother a hero Wednesday for preventing a man from abducting one of her granddaughters. Sharrel Blankenbaker, 63, from the small Oklahoma Panhandle town of Felt, was shot to death in the parking lot of a Love's store on Interstate 40 in Amarillo, Texas. Her three grandchildren, ages 5, 12 and 16, witnessed the killing. "It was a tragic event,” Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said. "The grandmother at the Love's can be called nothing but a hero.” A man identified as Gary Don Carner, 58, tried to abduct two women, killed Blankenbaker, abducted an...