2 SUSPECTS KILLED IN KIDNAP SCHEME.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Two kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. suspects driving to pick up a ransom were shot to death Wednesday when they opened fire on detectives closing in for an arrest, police said. The kidnap victim was rescued at another location where two men and a woman were arrested, police said. No identities were released. The shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. left the suspects' red van riddled with bullet holes. The suspects were identified only as men. They were being tailed by the Police Department's Special Investigations Section en route to a ransom drop, said Officer Lori Taylor. Officers stopped the van at Gage and Compton avenues in the Florence area and identified themselves, but the two men got out of the van and opened fire, Taylor said. The two men died at the scene about 2 p.m. No officers were hurt. "They came up with very desperate, armed suspects who tried to kill them," said Cmdr. Tim McBride. "They were fired on. Their lives were in danger." The two men were involved in the kidnapping of a 29-year-old man from a restaurant Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. , Taylor said. The family had negotiated with the kidnappers and made a partial payment to them, Taylor said. Officers went to a residence on Main Street, where they rescued the abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point man and arrested three people, Taylor said. |
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