Tag: child kidnapping

Pomona Man Convicted of 11-Year-Old Boy’s Killing in 1990

LOS ANGELES—An ex-convict was found guilty on March 10 of the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped more than three decades ago while walking home from school in Inglewood. A downtown Los Angeles jury deliberated about three hours before convicting Edward Donell Thomas, 53, of Pomona, of first-degree murder for the May 24,…


Policeman Killed, Students Abducted in Attack on Nigerian School

BAUCHI, Nigeria—Gunmen killed a police officer and abducted five teachers and an unknown number of students on Thursday from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi, police and local residents said. The attack was the latest in a series of group kidnappings at schools in northwest Nigeria, which have been attributed by the…