Owen Burns was returning from school on a typical afternoon when he overheard his sister screaming. He was annoyed by the disruption her screams caused, but he did not perceive any evil in her cries for assistance.
When he looked out his window startled, he quickly overcame it to make a decision that would save his life.
When Owen Burns heard his sister screaming in the backyard, he was about to begin playing his favorite PlayStation 3 game, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.”. The thirteen-year-old became agitated because she felt stupid.
The young man was in his room when he later witnessed a stranger attempting to drag his sister, who was only eight years old, to the woods that bordered their house.
The terrified teenager grabbed his slingshot and gathered any nearby objects he could use as ammunition, such as marbles and rocks. Right between the kidnapper’s eyes, he fired a shot.
The following time, he punched him in the chest. He was swearing. Owen stated to the media, “He was swearing. ”.
The meeting was held outside at the Burns’ residence in Alpena Township, Michigan. According to their mother Maggie Burns, the neighborhood doesn’t experience many kidnappings.
His 8-year-old sister was unharmed but undoubtedly terrified following the encounter. The Michigan State Police did not reveal the identity of the 17-year-old kidnapper, but they did state that he would face adult charges.
Regarding Owen’s “extraordinary” actions, John Grimshaw praised him and said that he “really is the one that… I believe he saved his sister’s life or from something seriously bad happening to her”.
This young person showed courage in all of his or her deeds!
The young man should be praised for his efforts, he continued.
The teen used a typical slingshot, which wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. His mother bought it for $3 as a result of a sale. The teen claimed that in order to improve his aim, he frequently went outside to his yard to shoot at used orange juice cans.
When he first witnessed a stranger trying to kidnap his sister, the boy claimed he had only one thought: if the stranger was successful, he would probably either kill his sister or use her as a sex slave.
In accordance with Grimshaw’s description of what happened, the kidnapper “came from behind her, grabbed her like you see in the movies — hand over the mouth, arm around the waist — and was trying to pull her into the woods. ”.
Immediately after that, Owen began slingshot-firing at him. When her kidnapper let go of her, she cried as she fled inside the house and told her brother that she had almost died. Owen stormed outside and launched into a rage-filled tirade against the kidnapper. He tried to hit him with a baseball, but he couldn’t. His third attempt was rendered useless when the slingshot’s rubber began to crack. He then made another attempt to strike him with it.
The siblings then called their mother, who had stopped on her way home from work to assist at a relative’s house. She ran home to call the police while her agitated and incomprehensible children were on the phone. “Kidnapper” was all she could make out.”.
I was in shock for a few days, Maggie acknowledged.
The kidnapper, who was 17 years old, was discovered hiding at a nearby gas station. Later, in Alpena County District Court, he was charged with attempted kidnapping, attempted criminal assault, misdemeanor assault, and battery.
A police press release stated that “he had obvious signs of an injury consistent with those that would have been sustained from the slingshot strikes to his head and chest”.
Maggie questioned his son’s claim that, from 200 feet away, he had hit the kidnapper precisely in the face and chest. The police, who asserted that the suspect’s marble-caused goose egg on his forehead grew as they spoke with him, corroborated the information, though.
You claimed I’m a liar who always tells lies. Declared Owen to his mother.
I just couldn’t believe it, she retorted. “Until there was confirmation, I just didn’t believe it sounded real. The phrase has a cinematic feel to it.
The young woman replied, “Mom, things in movies can and do happen in real life. A brave young man, indeed!
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