Teen claimed he was shot and abducted. It was a hoax, officials say
The text was the worst nightmare of each parent: a 17 -year -old boy said he had been kidnapped, shot and injured by a group of men on the Florida highway.
Law enforcement officers were involved in the scene. There was a warning to find the child. After the known that young people said that the kidnappers were “Spanish ,, an online anger erupted.
But none of them were true, the authorities say now.
In a text to his mother last week, the young, defined as Caden Speight, claimed that he had been shot and kidnapped by four Latin men on the 484 highway in Dunnellon in Marion County.
The claim fired Furor against the Latins on the social media on publishing an amber warning throughout the state.
“Time to move, no more words,” he tagged President Trump. “Release your hunts of hell.”
Another shared the title of “large or small, deported all of them”.
On September 25, MPs from Marion County Sheriff Office came to the motorway number 484 and found Caden’s vehicle, but the young was not seen and mobile phone was thrown. A News Bulletin From the agency.
The report triggered more research.
At the end of Caden, Williston was found in FLA.
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said in a video statement on Monday that the detectives have gathered evidence that the detectives were proved to be wrong that the first details that Caden texted to his family ”.
“We found the evidence of a single firearm with Caden’s truck,” Woods said. “However, the allegations that he had been shot and kidnapped were not refuted quickly. Then we learned that he bought a bicycle, tent and camping equipment just before he reported it.”
Woods, Caden, before the report was shot and kidnapped Ocala, FLA’dan a Walmart bought a red and gray tent.
“Caden just drove towards Williston, the rest was left to think about the worst, and my team was working at extreme speed to solve this case,” Woods said.
Authorities said that the young person had a pistol and hit himself in the leg before he was found.
Woods claimed that Caden did it to ürmek to continue to be tricky ,, the authorities said that the authorities have a chance to come from any kind of aggressive species of Caden’s fiery wound ”.
Woods said that the teenager could face criminal charges that he was not “outside the table”. The investigation continues and detectives have questions for Caden, but his family did not allow researchers to talk to him.
The update from law enforcement officers triggered a new social media interpretation from condemnation to calls for patience and unity.
“The four Spanish men try to kidnap him and don’t care that he could do real damage to innocent men. [were] It is despicable not to do anything wrong in itself, ”he wrote a Facebook user.
“I think we should all be a supportive and real community and we should not behave crazy and jump to the results,” he said. “A lot of people make up something. All we have to do is pray.”
