A 14-year-old missing North Carolina girl was found alive and safe in Arkansas when a steady-state police officer was hospitalized on Sunday after being gunned down during a confrontation at a McDonald’s restaurant with the man who would see her on February 11. have kidnapped. according to reports.
William Robert Ice, 38, of Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after fleeing from authorities. (Courtesy of Pennsylvania State Police)
William Robert Ice, 38, of Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, died as a result of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after fleeing authorities, according to Arkansas State Police. The kidnapped teenager Savannah Grace Childress fled from the vehicle and was secured by a state soldier.
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A few police officers from Lonoke, Arkansas, confronted Ice, the driver of an SUV who was parked in the fast-food restaurant Saturday night after the vehicle was linked to the North Carolina child abduction case.
The driver started firing at the officers as he exited the SUV. State police said one officer was hit while the other, uninjured, was shot when Ice entered the vehicle and fled.
An Arkansas State Trooper spotted the SUV and chased it until the vehicle broke down in a snowdrift.
Inside the SUV, a trooper found Ice seriously injured by what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound for now. Ice later died in a Little Rock hospital.
Arkansas State Police, working with sheriff’s deputies in Davidson County, North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, determined that the girl had been kidnapped.
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Ice was also wanted by Pennsylvania law enforcement authorities in connection with other cases of child predators, according to Arkansas state police.
“His body has been submitted to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory to determine the manner and cause of death,” Arkansas State Police said in a statement. “The injured police officer from Lonoke is reportedly in stable condition at a hospital in Little Rock.”
The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office said that “without the teamwork of all the law enforcement agencies involved, the outcome of this case could have been very different.”