A missing 14-year-old North Carolina girl was found alive and safe in Arkansas, while a police officer was hospitalized in stable condition on Sunday after being shot during a confrontation at a McDonald’s restaurant with the man who allegedly kidnapped her on 11 December. February, according to reports.
William Robert Ice, 38, of the Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after escaping from authorities. (Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Police)
William Robert Ice, 38, of Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after escaping from authorities, according to Arkansas State Police. The kidnapped teenager Savannah Grace Childress fled the vehicle and was protected by a state police officer.
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Two police officers from Lonoke, Arkansas, confronted Ice, the driver of an SUV parked in a fast-food restaurant on Saturday night, after the vehicle was connected to the North Carolina kidnapping case.
The driver started shooting at the cops when he got out of the SUV. One police officer was hit while the other, who was not injured, responded with shots when Ice got into the vehicle again and fled, according to state police.
An Arkansas state policeman spotted the SUV and chased it until the vehicle was inoperable on a snow bank.
Inside the SUV, a soldier found Ice seriously injured from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Ice later died in a Little Rock hospital.
The Arkansas State Police, working with the sheriff’s delegates 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 officials in connection with other cases of infant predators, according to the Arkansas State Police.
“His body was submitted to the Arkansas State Criminal Laboratory to determine the form and cause of death,” the Arkansas State Police said in a statement. “Lonoke’s injured policeman is in stable condition at a Little Rock hospital.”
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.”