#BREAKING Police have found missing 14-year-old #AyvaniPerez.
— Clayton County SO (@ClaytonCountySO) September 18, 2013
Ayvani Perez, 14, has been found alive and has been reunited with her family by police in Clayton County, Georgia, just hours after her kidnappers demanded $10,000 in exchange for her release, reports The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
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(Clayton County Police)
Perez was taken by armed intruders to her home in Ellenwood, Georgia, just south of Atlanta at around 2:15 a.m. on the morning of September 17. It’s alleged that when the would-be robbers found no valuables in the home they took the girl, in addition to shooting and killing her family’s dog.
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Perez is reported to have been found in Conyers, Georgia, approximately 25 miles from her home in Ellenwood.
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Two suspects are in custody for the kidnapping:
#BREAKING: This is a 2006 mugshot of the #AyvaniPerez kidnapping suspect, Wildrego Jackson. #wsbtv pic.twitter.com/rsiGnwnd5K
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) September 18, 2013
#BREAKING: FBI special agent: #AyvaniPerez — 40-year-old Mexican national is second person in custody. http://t.co/WbG9yi1Vx0 #wsbtv
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) September 18, 2013
But two other suspects are still at large, reports 11 Alive.