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EC student escapes gunpoint kidnapping

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managed her own escape, but the incident left a deep impression. ''I'm a lot more nervous when I'm by myself now than I was," she said. The incident occurred at about 11 'a.m. when Rash returned to her room in Barber Hall prior to keeping the nursery during Sunday morning services at Clarke-Venable Baptist Church.

By Jack Tannehill

walked upstairs and I noticed there was a man sitting down in the lobby, watching tv," she said. "I smiled at him and went upstairs and got what I needed and came back down." "When I got to the top of the stairs, he was walking around down in the lobby...right in front of the doors." She said she went down the

Appeal Editor What started as an average

Sunday morning for 19-year Andrea Rash turned into a night– mare when she abducted at gun point from her East Central Community college dormitory. Within just a few minutes after being abducted, Rash, a 2005 graduate of Union High School,

Barber Hall on the ECCC campus

stairs and tried to go out and the man said "excuse me". What happened next made Rash aware that something out of the ordinary was happening.

" J turned around, and he said ' I need to ask you some– thing' and he put his arm arotmd me," she said. Cont. page 6, see Kidnapping...

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