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Woman protected from rapist by boy, 14, with hunting knife after she leaps from car
http://usnews.nbcnews.com ^ | january 18, 2013 | Andrew Mach

Posted on 01/21/2013 3:59:16 AM PST by lowbridge

It was a night of mayhem and bravery that central Michigan will not soon forget.

A young woman who was abducted at gunpoint made a daring escape Wednesday night from her rapist into a house full of kids that was later set on fire by her attacker, police said.

The suspect, identified as Eric Lee Ramsey, 30, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., was later fatally shot by police after he got into a series of hit and runs with police vehicles in a sanitation truck he had stolen. But before he died, he apparently tweeted that he was going to be shot.

The incident began Wednesday when Ramsey allegedly kidnapped the woman from Central Michigan University's campus, and brought her to a home where he bound and sexually assaulted her, according to a statement from Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski.

Ramsey then put the woman in the back of a car, retrieved two gas cans and began driving. He purportedly told the woman “he was going to take her life,” Mioduszewski said. After hearing that, the woman jumped out of the car and ran to a nearby home, she told police.

Eric Ramsey, a Michigan Dept. of Corrections parolee, was shot and killed by police after allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting a CMU student, setting a house on fire and stealing a sanitation truck that he rammed into police vehicles.

Alone inside that Lincoln Township home were a 14-year-old boy and his 11-year-old sister and 2-year-old brother. The teenager, James Persyn III, told Mlive.com that he let the woman in, locked the door and grabbed his hunting knife.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: ericleeramsey; jamespersyniii; michigan; mountpleasant
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1 posted on 01/21/2013 3:59:28 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

See, see! He Tweeted! A tool of rapists. All tweeters need to be banned. Its just like a barrel shroud!


2 posted on 01/21/2013 4:04:48 AM PST by Lockbar (Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ------- The New Gold)
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To: lowbridge
Who was this guy tweeting, his prison buddies?

How does one just get in a sanitation truck and drive off? I can't imagine they are just lined up on the street with keys in ignition. Also how convenient he trashed his own car and then boom out of nowhere he just so happens to find a vehicle unlocked with keys in ignition to steal. This almost sounds like an episode of bait car, uh I mean bait garbage truck.

3 posted on 01/21/2013 4:26:25 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: lowbridge

Just another woman victimized by an opportunistic freak who took advantage of the campus being a gun free zone?


4 posted on 01/21/2013 4:34:00 AM PST by Mrs. P (Figures can lie, and liars can figure.)
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To: Mrs. P

They will probably limit the amount of fuel purchased from this point when filling up one’s gas can...

But like you said, let’s not let the students carry a CCW for protection — that would be totally wrong (sarc)


5 posted on 01/21/2013 4:35:58 AM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: lowbridge
Everyone's missing the point.

The MSM only tells stories that will support their agenda.

The point is: the teenager didn't need a gun to protect the victim. He was just as effective with a knife.

6 posted on 01/21/2013 4:42:01 AM PST by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: Mrs. P

Just another woman victimized by an opportunistic freak who took advantage of the campus being a gun free zone?

Free Killing Zone.


7 posted on 01/21/2013 4:43:46 AM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: lowbridge

“when Ramsey allegedly kidnapped the woman from Central Michigan University’s campus”

...a gun-free zone, I guess. Easy pickins’


8 posted on 01/21/2013 4:46:28 AM PST by BobL
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To: lowbridge
wondering how many times, this perp/parolee has done this..the garbage truck, two gas cans...
the disposal site; just an opportunist or serial murderer / stalking prey.

9 posted on 01/21/2013 4:52:16 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: Blue Highway

You ask too many questions!

The MSM asks all the questions you need to know, if the gov’t wanted you to know more, they would have told the MSM, this is especially true in politics, but prevails across the board.

Ours is not to reason why, trust the gov’t or die!


10 posted on 01/21/2013 4:52:29 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: lowbridge

Strange headline, because the story doesn’t make it sound as though the knife was ever used or even came into play.

The woman owes her life to that boy letting her into the house, even though it was a dangerous thing to do with 2 other small children in the home.


11 posted on 01/21/2013 4:57:54 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: LoveUSA

Of course if he’d had a hunting rifle instead of a hunting knife the house probably wouldn’t have been torched and a lot of cars wouldn’t need body work, but hey...


12 posted on 01/21/2013 5:03:37 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: lowbridge
Granholms revolving door "paroles for everyone" policy strikes again, long after the b!tch is gone.

CC

13 posted on 01/21/2013 5:11:57 AM PST by Celtic Conservative
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To: lowbridge

Had the man been determined to get into the house, he would have killed all four.

It was quite likely the fear of the home being protected by a gun that prevented the perp from coming in.

The boy needed a gun. A 14 year old in Texas used the family AR-15 to fight off two perps from his home and little sister, just two weeks ago.


14 posted on 01/21/2013 5:27:14 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: muir_redwoods

I’d rather fix the car and the house then have my 14 yr old live with the fact he’d killed someone. Even a scumbag such as this.

They would have been in trouble if they guy had tried to get in the house, but he didnt.


15 posted on 01/21/2013 5:31:23 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: nuconvert

“... the woman owes her life to that boy...”

She does owe her life to that boy. What a horrible decision. Let the screaming woman into his home or keep the door closed to protect his younger siblings. He was faced with a grown man dilemma and thank goodness all is well.


16 posted on 01/21/2013 5:31:45 AM PST by momtothree
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To: driftdiver

No one said anything about pulling the trigger. As in most cases simply being able to show the weapon might well suffice. The punk may have wanted to die by cop but may not have been so keen on being taken out by a schoolboy.


17 posted on 01/21/2013 5:37:20 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: LoveUSA

No more phone calls.....we have a winner.


18 posted on 01/21/2013 5:47:02 AM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: momtothree

Unfortunately, the screaming woman may be in on the home invasion, with her purpose being a decoy to get you to open the door.

It’s happened before.


19 posted on 01/21/2013 5:55:05 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: lowbridge; cripplecreek

Mornin’ Crip.


20 posted on 01/21/2013 5:57:11 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Bread and Circuses; Everyone to the Coliseum!)
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