2023-05-18 23:10:02
ALPENA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 13-year-old Michigan boy who used a slingshot to save his 8-year-old sister from an attempted kidnapping said he freaked out and just took what he might get. to avoid the attack.
“So I got my slingshot and I opened the window and I got two things: a marble and a rock or something,” Owen Burns told WWTV/WWUP-TV in Cadillac, northern Michigan.
Police said Owen struck the 17-year-old attacker in the head and chest, allowing his sister to escape.
“I was lucky. He was a big guy; It wasn’t like aiming for a can of Pepsi,” Owen said.
The kidnapping attempt occurred on May 10 outside the family’s home in the Municipality of Alpena. Owen’s sister was out looking for mushrooms.
“I told him, ‘okay, be careful’… And then, boom, something happens,” he recalled.
Owen was playing video games when he heard a scream, but he thought his sister was just “passing the time” with friends. A second scream alarmed him.
“So I looked out the window and saw a person taking her away, and then I freaked out,” Owen said.
It was then that he picked up his slingshot. Police detained the suspect, noting that he had visible injuries. The teenager faces charges of attempted kidnapping and other crimes.
John Grimshaw, a state police first lieutenant, said Owen’s actions were “extraordinary.” He assured that the boy saved his sister’s life, or at least prevented “something extremely serious from happening to her.”
Owen said that he had to act now.
“If I hadn’t been there and heard her scream, then she would have disappeared,” he said.
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