Benning in wissinoming around 11 30 last night. Once he was freed from the burning call he was able to tell officers was abducted by three men driving a black did you do dee with tinted windows. At which time he was approached by three males who point of gun abducted him put him in the back of his car zip tied him drove him around for the next several hoursism they ended up in olney where the suspects doused the victim with gasoline and lit his vehicle on fire. During all that time they were driving around, police say the suspects were using the victims phone calling and texting repeatedly to demand ransom from his family. We did learn that a Family Member did begin toe messages from our victims phone from the people that abducted him demanding 10,00 now, this went on for at least five hours until at 5 42 police were called to west ford road. Reporter Police Emphasize they dont think this was random although they were unable to say this afternoon why at this point they think this victi
And i was kind of scared. Reporter firefighters and paramedics rescued the man his burnt clothing lay strewn across the sidewalk. Investigators spent much of the morning on the scene looking for clues including Surveillance Video from homes along the block. I believe they have cameras down here so i hopefully they caught everything. Reporter the victim was taken to Temple University hospital with second and third degree burns over about 50 percent of his body. Police are expected to provide some new information and just about a half an hour we will be there and we will have a live report coming up on action news at 6 oclock. Live at the special victims units in hunting park im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Back to you. Sarah thank you. A camden firefighter injured on the job was released from the hospital today. The action cam was there at his home as captain Robert Eckert was greeted by the mayor and fellow firefighters. He spent much of the last two weeks at cooper Universit
High clouds may streak in later on. Generally speaking its going to be a bright one but were starting out colder as karen mentioned. 28 degrees in philadelphia, 25 right now in allentown. 24 in reading. Were ick in trenton, 26 in wilmington and 28 degrees in millville. Little bit of a breeze kicking around in philadelphia its around 10 Miles Per Hour or so and thats enough to give you wind chills in the teens this morning in many areas so do bundle up. Not only with the winter coat but maybe a little extra gear, too. Still have some residual flooding left over from those rains on sunday. The Rancocas Creek is still running a little high between pemberton and lumberton. Be careful there not only along the creek but its tributaries. The Maurice River also giving us problems as well as some of the streams that feed into that. And little while ago we also added the Great Egg Harbor River in atlantic county, again tributaries running into that river may also have high water and some flooded
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