Post by Mary Jane Burns on Dec 5, 2006 16:45:07 GMT -5
Missing boy, 5, found dead
POSTED: 11:08 a.m. EST, December 5, 2006
GADSDEN, Alabama (AP) -- A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from a parking lot was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said.
The body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area of Etowah County, said a dispatcher for that county's sheriff's department, who did not give her name. Officials planned to release details at a midmorning news conference, she said.
Alabama state troopers announced only that an Amber Alert for the boy had been canceled. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The Gadsden Times reported that the boy was found in the trunk of a car at a home in the Mountainboro community.
Geontae was abducted Monday morning from the parking of a convenience store in Albertville in neighboring Marshall County, about 80 miles northeast of Birmingham.
Authorities said the boy's mother, Shalinda Glass, 25, of Rainbow City, left him asleep in the back seat with the engine running while she went inside to buy juice.
Witnesses reported seeing a man get out of a pickup truck and get into her car, then driving away as someone else drove off in the pickup truck.
It was not known if the man realized the sleeping child was in the back seat.
Glass told police she did not recognize the man.
Gina Keeton, a clerk at the store, said she saw Glass crying hysterically in the parking lot.
"When I asked her what was wrong, she said someone had taken her child and her car," she said.
POSTED: 11:08 a.m. EST, December 5, 2006
GADSDEN, Alabama (AP) -- A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from a parking lot was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said.
The body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area of Etowah County, said a dispatcher for that county's sheriff's department, who did not give her name. Officials planned to release details at a midmorning news conference, she said.
Alabama state troopers announced only that an Amber Alert for the boy had been canceled. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The Gadsden Times reported that the boy was found in the trunk of a car at a home in the Mountainboro community.
Geontae was abducted Monday morning from the parking of a convenience store in Albertville in neighboring Marshall County, about 80 miles northeast of Birmingham.
Authorities said the boy's mother, Shalinda Glass, 25, of Rainbow City, left him asleep in the back seat with the engine running while she went inside to buy juice.
Witnesses reported seeing a man get out of a pickup truck and get into her car, then driving away as someone else drove off in the pickup truck.
It was not known if the man realized the sleeping child was in the back seat.
Glass told police she did not recognize the man.
Gina Keeton, a clerk at the store, said she saw Glass crying hysterically in the parking lot.
"When I asked her what was wrong, she said someone had taken her child and her car," she said.
