Slingshot-wielding boy saves sister from kidnapper

By Agence France-Presse

May 17, 2023 12:22 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A United States teenager and deadeye marksman saved his sister from a kidnapping recently when he used his crude but effective weapon — a slingshot — to wound the attacker.

An eight-year-old girl was searching for mushrooms last week in her backyard in Alpena Township, Michigan, when an unknown man jumped out of the woods and grabbed her, police in the northern American state said in a statement sent Monday to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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