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Abduction suspects held
UPDATE:
What is believed to be the body of Yong Hui Zhang, the food delivery man abducted Friday night, has been found in Sussex County, about 110 miles south of Fredericksburg where he was ambushed. It was found by State Police agents, who had arrested Jermaine Montgomery and Marcie White and charged them with his abduction hours earlier at a Wal-Mart in Franklin, a city in southeastern Virginia. Zhang's missing 2004 Nissan Sentra was also located in Sussex, but it was not with the remains, said Natatia Bledsoe, city police spokeswoman. A third subject was in the Wal-Mart when they were arrested. There are no charges against that person at this time. The cause of death for Zhang has not yet been determined. Investigators are still on the scene gathering evidence and the case is ongoing. Details regarding additional charges against the suspects will likely not be available until Monday morning due to the focus on evidence collection at multiple crime scenes. “We are deeply saddened by this tragic turn of events,” said Fredericksburg Chief David Nye. “Our hearts go out to the Zhang family for their terrible loss.” --Dick Hammerstrom, The Free Lance-Star (1:25 a.m.) Date published: 7/6/2008
BY KEITH EPPS The two suspects in the violent abduction of a food deliveryman in Fredericksburg on Thursday night were arrested yesterday at a Wal-Mart in Franklin in southeastern Virginia. Jermaine Montgomery, 34, and his girlfriend, 36-year-old Marcey White, are charged with being the persons responsible for the brutal ambush of Yong Hui Zhang. The two were taken into custody without incident by two state police special agents, an FBI agent and sheriff's deputies from Southampton County. They had used a credit card belonging to Zhang to make purchases at the Wal-Mart and went back into the store to buy more when they were arrested, said Fredericksburg police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe Zhang, 24, was making a delivery for his parents' China Express restaurant when he was attacked behind a vacant apartment at 202 Charles St. and abducted. A large amount of Zhang's blood and one of his shoes were found at the scene; Zhang and his vehicle were still missing as of last night. If Zhang is still alive, he would have to be severely injured, police said. Franklin is located about 135 miles south of Fredericksburg and 42 miles east of Norfolk. Bledsoe said Montgomery has been identified as the man using Zhang's credit card at the Four-Mile Fork Shell station in Spotsylvania County shortly after the attack. Police have also identified White as the woman who was with him. White was initially listed as someone police simply wanted to talk to, but that had changed by yesterday. Both suspects have been charged with abduction, conspiracy to commit abduction, carjacking, conspiracy to commit carjacking, credit card theft and conspiracy to commit credit card theft. Carjacking alone carries a possible life sentence. Bledsoe said police have been working on this case around the clock and will continue to do so. She said neither suspect has a listed address, but both are known to spend time in various localities, living temporarily with relatives and associates. They have associates in the Fredericksburg area, but police aren't sure how much time they've been spending here. Police focused on the southeastern Virginia area because White has relatives in Virginia Beach and has also lived in Southampton County, Bledsoe said. Police knew the suspects went to that area after the attack on Zhang.
I found your response very funny and entertaining.
Of course someone brandishing a gun would be threatening.....but are you trying to say that armed pizza delivery people would just show up at your door, brandishing their weapons for no reason? What point, if any, are you trying to make and how do you think it adds anything relevant to this discussion?
L2BR
You define it as I had used it. A delivery man brandishing a gun on my front porch would indeed be threatening, by your definition. The man is using the gun in a threatening manner such as taking it out and pointing it at me. Do you think that is threatening? Notice I did not say that the delivery man conceals the gun in his holster. L2R.
Brandishing basically means holding a firearm in a "threatening" manner. Someone carrying a gun in an exposed holster (open carry) would not be brandishing unless they placed a hand on it and acted like they were about to draw it. Open carry is legal without a permit. Carrying a concealed handgun requires a permit. With concealed carry, nobody usually knows that the person is armed. So if your delivery person carried concealed you wouldn't know they were armed or not, unless they told or showed you.
I would find a pizza delivery man brandishing a gun on my front porch a bit threatening. It would also encourage me to tip more.
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