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Updated: 3:45 PM CDT May 14, 2021
DYERSBURG, Tenn. A man and woman are behind bars after police say they abducted a child Thursday morning.
According to the Dyersburg Police Department, a woman’s ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old John McLean, and a 22-year-old woman, Harley Allen, came to the woman’s home and tried to abduct both of her kids. One child got away, but McLean and Allen grabbed the woman’s 4-year-old child and sped off, but not before the woman was choked and physically assaulted. An officer saw the car near Forrest Street and stopped it. The child was unharmed.
McLean is charged with Aggravated Kidnapping, Aggravated Assault, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Violation of a No Contact Order. Allen was charged with Aggravated Kidnapping, and Child Abuse and Neglect. Both were put in jail pending action by the Dyersburg City Court.
On Thursday afternoon, Dyersburg City Schools announced the implementation of modified Phase 3, beginning Monday, April 19, for all city schools. Under the new phase, masks will be optional for students and staff members and visitors will begin to be invited into the school buildings.
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Speaking on the recent phase announcement, Dyersburg City Schools Director Kim Worley told the State Gazette, This is a great move for our students and families. Everybody wants a little hope to return to normal. I think this gives everybody a feeling of hope thats the direction were moving.
Worley noted the deciding factors for the phase change were the decrease of COVID-19 cases within the community and monitoring COVID numbers following Spring Break.
With the release of the Tennessee Department of Healths (TDH) daily COVID-19 update on Tuesday, the department reported Dyer County as having a total of 4,885 COVID-19 cases, which consist of confirmed and probable cases. Additionally, the TDH said that Dyer County had 236 active cases with 4,562 recoveries/inactive cases. The total number of deaths due to the virus was listed at 87.
TDH COVID-19 Dyer County Data Dashboard:
The TDH launched a COVID-19 website, https://covid19.tn.gov, which helps streamline and simplify some of the most frequently requested COVID-19 data. The site, which can be accessed for both desktop and mobile users, offers dashboards and daily reports with state and county-level information including case counts, hospitalizations and tests conducted.