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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 15, 2015
• Views : 811
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Gulflive.com
  By The Associated Press
  on October 15, 2015 at 4:05 AM
  
  Photo: A photo of 4-year-old Jonathan Paul, nicknamed JoJo, is tacked to a wall at the Sonlight Children's Home in the Port-au-Prince district Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Paul was kidnapped from American missionary Roberta Edwards' car after she was fatally shot by gunmen. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.gulflive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/mystery_shrouds_american_missi.html#incart_river_home

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — No ransom demand has been received since gunmen snatched a 4-year-old boy over the weekend and killed the American missionary who had raised him since he was a severely malnourished infant, church officials said Wednesday.
  
  Longtime Haiti-based missionary Roberta Edwards was fatally shot by two attackers who cut off her car on a rutted, dirt road late Saturday near the foster care home and food-distribution site she has run on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince since 2002. She was returning from a gas station with three of her young charges.
  
  The Estes Church of Christ in Henderson, Tennessee, which sponsored Edwards' work at the Sonlight Children's Home, said her two teenage passengers managed to escape after she told them to run for their lives.
  
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