Amber Alert in Springfield

[Mr. Laz]

FOX 4 NewsVerified account ‏@fox4kc
Incident
Date: 2/18/2014 16:48

This is an Amber Alert, the Springfield Missouri Police Department has issued an Amber Alert that occured at 3247 west Lombard at 4:48 pm on 02/18/14. Abducted was Hailey Owens a white female 10 years old. The suspect vehicle is a gold 2008 Ford Ranger Missouri registration 1YF454. The vehicle was last seen southbound on Scenic from Grand in Springfield, Missouri. The suspect is a white male, no further description is available. The victim, Hailey M. Owens is a white female 10 years old, 5 foot 2 inches tall, weighing 90 pounds with long brown hair, brown eyes and pierced ears. Owens was last seen wearing blue jean shorts and purple sandals.. . Please Contact Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810

Address 1	3247 W. Lombard
City	Springfield
State	MO

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

I received either 2 or 3 alerts. Each alert took around 10 seconds out of my busy day.

Now I agree that the sending of alerts could certainly be overdone. I sure as hell wouldn't want to see an alert every time there's a parental dispute and the non-custodial parent runs off with his or her own child.

This was an entirely different situation. Sorry if it interrupted your favorite television show. And it's a real shame that King had to look at his phone a couple of times.

**** off, jackass.

[oldandslow]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

**** off, jackass.

Why...because he is right and you are ...well, whatever you are.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by tooge

who knows how it all went down, but if you are sitting in your garage and some freak grabs a kid in front of your house and takes off, aren't you driving after the SOB while the wife calls 911? If guy runs red lights and shit to get away from you, he's gonna get caught before he kills the girl. I'd feel pretty shitty if all I did was call 911 and found out about this.

My thoughts exactly

[Lex Luthor]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Probably already been said but probably shot for TPing a house.

Political commentary and attempts at humor are fine in most threads. I think I'd refrain from both in a thread about the murder of a 10 year old girl who is a family member of a regular poster here.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by tooge

who knows how it all went down, but if you are sitting in your garage and some freak grabs a kid in front of your house and takes off, aren't you driving after the SOB while the wife calls 911? If guy runs red lights and shit to get away from you, he's gonna get caught before he kills the girl. I'd feel pretty shitty if all I did was call 911 and found out about this.

Yeah, that struck me as really odd too.

[greatgooglymoogly]

SIAP: http://www.ky3.com/news/local/breaki...48998_24555750

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -
Police worked a crime scene all night at 1538 E. Stanford St. as they investigated the kidnapping and murder of 10-year-old Hailey Owens. She was taken from the 3200 block of West Lombard Street as she walked from a friend's home to her home two blocks away late Tuesday afternoon.

At a news conference at 6:30 a.m., police would not confirm that they found Hailey's body but multiple news agencies report that fact, including that the family was told of her death. Early Wednesday morning, police parked a mobile Crime Scene vehicle at the home on Stanford. FBI agents are also at the scene.

Police arrested Craig Michael Wood on suspicion of first-degree murder. Police located Wood about 8:30 p.m. in his vehicle in his driveway at 1538 E. Stanford, where he lives. A search for Hailey then started in the area around Bennett Street at National Avenue, near Phelps Grove Park, the Springfield Art Museum and Mexican Villa restaurant. About 35 police officers were involved in the search, which resulted in the discovery of evidence of foul play in the case.

Wood is an in-school suspension teacher at Pleasant View Middle School.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by oldandslow

Why...because he is right and you are ...well, whatever you are.

Because I live in reality and the rest of you live in some fantasy ****ing world? That's fine by me.

[TLO]

****

[-King-]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

If my son is ever abducted, I hope they send text messages to everyone every 30 seconds for run a continuous loop on everyone's television with the loud ass siren. I hope it annoys everyone to the point there are angry mobs in the streets looking for the abductor just to stop the messages.

What's more likely to happen? People get annoyed to the point they actually take action and go out and look for the abductor, or people get annoyed to the point they opt out of all future amber alerts?
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[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by -King-

What's more likely to happen? People get annoyed to the point they actually take action and go out and look for the abductor, or people get annoyed to the point they opt out of all future amber alerts?
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Give it up man, it's an exercise in futility around here.

[Why Not?]

I'm sure there's a time to debate the efficiency and technique of Amber Alerts. I'm also sure that time is not on a thread chock full of parents and even the uncle(so sorry man)of a child that just got killed. Use a smidge of common decency sense.

[oldandslow]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Because I live in reality and the rest of you live in some fantasy ****ing world? That's fine by me.

and what reality is that....Amber Alerts can save lives...that it takes 30 seconds of your day is really of no consequence to me.

[-King-]

Now keep in mind I deleted 1 or two of them in that time period.
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[booger]

I can't even begin to fathom the feeling MTG...my thoughts are with you and the family

[TLO]

Originally Posted by MTG#10

Hailey is my niece. Words cannot describe what I want to do tho this piece of shit right now.

Prayers sent for Hailey, you, and your family.