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Baitball Blogger

(51,333 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 04:14 PM Sep 26

You are not going to believe this. Look up Caden Rex Speight.

So I receive an amber alert last night for a young man who was kidnapped. Usually it's small children, but this boy was seventeen and white. Looks like Opi's cousin.

This morning the details claimed that he texted his mother to tell her he was shot and was taken in a white van by four hispanic males. This is not the usual details for an abduction. Usually it involves a parent and small children.

So, now I'm hearing there was no evidence of being abducted by hispanic males.

Now the Update:
Caden has been located safe in Williston. This investigation is still ongoing. More updates will be provided as they become available.

If it's another fraudulent, racist claim. I hope he spends time in jail.

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GoCubsGo

(34,508 posts)
3. Shades of Susan Smith, as well.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 05:15 PM
Sep 26

She was the one who drowned her two boys by driving her car into a pond, and then claiming that a black man abducted them.

SheilaAnn

(10,566 posts)
5. I saw this last night and thought a 17 year old young man should be able to fight them off. Crazy. n/t
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:09 PM
Sep 26

Iggo

(49,340 posts)
10. Hardly anyone I've met or even heard of could fight off four men at once.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:59 PM
Sep 26

I can think of one, and they DEFINITELY would have had to shoot him first…lol.

mcar

(45,429 posts)
6. This is in my neck of the woods
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:13 PM
Sep 26

Sounds like the initial reporting was BS. From our local paper:

The missing child alert sparked a flurry of speculation online in the overnight hours. A flood of unverified information across social media posts and websites shared across the state of Florida and nationally indicated that the teen was shot and abducted by four Hispanic men....

At noon on Friday, the Sheriff’s Office shared that there was no evidence to support an abduction, but that the teen’s disappearance still was being investigated in connection with a shooting.

“Primarily, at this time, there is no evidence to indicate that he was taken by four Hispanic men in a light-colored van,” said Zach Moore, public information officer with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office at the time. “It is possible that he left the incident location on a black bicycle with a red and grey tent, which he purchased at Walmart on SW 19th Avenue Road, in Ocala.”

sinkingfeeling

(56,704 posts)
13. Here's an update from the sheriff. It's on Facebook, but non-users, like me, can view the video. The kid's
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:33 PM
Sep 30

parents won't allow him to be questioned by LE and he shot himself, very minor injury, in the leg.

https://www.facebook.com/mcsoflorida/videos/hello-marion-county-citizens-sheriff-woods-here-i-know-many-of-you-have-been-dee/833579742509687/

Baitball Blogger

(51,333 posts)
15. Thank you for the information.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:38 PM
Sep 30

It sounds like they're downplaying the fact that he tried to pin it on FOUR HISPANICS. This is bordering on a hate crime because it doesn't take much to trigger people these days.

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