JACKSON, Miss., May 12 (UPI) -- An 11-year-old Jackson, Miss., girl was shot twice, abducted, escaped and hid out in an unlocked car before turning up again, police said.
Amber Denasha Scott was sleeping on a cot in her living room when two men came in and demanded to see a relative of her mother, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported Thursday.
One of the men shot Amber in the arm and the right side and she rushed to her mother. Jackson Police spokesman Robert Graham said the man then asked for money and hit her mother on the head with a gun.
Amber was dragged outside where she managed to escape and hide in some bushes in the darkness late Tuesday night.
She then ran two blocks and started knocking on doors. When she got no answer she hid in an unlocked car. An Amber Alert was issued at 4:41 a.m. Wednesday.
Amber woke up about 6 a.m. and a neighbor let her in so she could call her mother, Graham said. She was kept overnight in a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds before she was released.
No arrests have been made.
