Mystery shrouds missionary 殺すing, child 誘拐 in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ― No 身代金 需要・要求する has been received since gunmen snatched a 4-year-old boy over the 週末 and killed the American missionary who had raised him since he was a 厳しく 栄養失調の 幼児, church 公式の／役人s said Wednesday.
Longtime Haiti-based missionary Roberta Edwards was fatally 発射 by two 攻撃者s who 削減（する） off her car on a rutted, dirt road late Saturday 近づく the foster care home and food-配当 場所／位置 she has run on the 郊外s of Port-au-Prince since 2002. She was returning from a gas 駅／配置する with three of her young 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.
The Estes Church of Christ in Henderson, Tennessee, which sponsored Edwards' work at the Sonlight Children's Home, said her two teenage 乗客s managed to escape after she told them to run for their lives.
American missionary Harold Pirtle 迎える／歓迎するs a boy at Sonlight Children's Home in the Port-au-Prince 地区 Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. American missionary Roberta Edwards, who ran Sonlight, was fatally 発射 by gunmen Saturday night as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a 居住の street. The 攻撃者s also kidnapped a 4-year-old from Edwards' car after 狙撃 her at の近くに 範囲. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Edwards was 発射 多重の times at the wheel of her car, and the gunmen then grabbed terrified youngster Jonathan "JoJo" Paul and sped off in a 乗り物 with 色合いd windows, fellow missionaries said.
"Hearts are breaking for him. And we certainly hope that whoever took him, wherever he is, whoever has him, will return him as soon as possible," said Larry Waymire, a longtime 同僚 and friend of the 55-year-old Edwards.
Police have given only the broadest 輪郭（を描く） of the 事例／患者 and no 詳細（に述べる）s of the 調査. The 動機 behind the 殺人，大当り and 明らかな kidnapping remains 不明瞭な.
Harold Pirtle, a church 年上の who traveled from Tennessee to 慰安 the children at the ホームラン by Edwards in Croix-des-Bouquets, said she was 井戸／弁護士席 aware of the dangers in Haiti. She had lived in the 貧窮化した country for two １０年間s, 最初 moving here with her Haitian husband. The marriage didn't last.
During a trip 支援する to Tennessee a couple of months ago, Edwards told church 年上のs that she had considered leaving Haiti, 説 she had been feeling "tired" and "脅すd," Pirtle said. But she never について言及するd re ceiving any 脅しs or 供給するd any 明確な／細部 推論する／理由s she felt 脅すd, he said.
"You can imagine 存在 here and doing this work ― she'd been doing it for 20 years. And so she had considered leaving the work, but then she said: 'I can't leave the kids,'" Pirtle said.
Waymire said the 誘拐するd boy （機の）カム to the children's home when he was 9 months old. He was just "肌 and bones" at the time, and 存在 raised in northeastern Haiti by his blind grandmother, who 明らかに asked a 地元の preacher to find decent care for him. His mother was dead.
Recently taken photographs show a healthy-looking child with 有望な 注目する，もくろむs and a ready smile. Waymire said Jonathan, the second youngest 居住（者） at the foster home, rarely left Edwards' 味方する. One of the photos shows him 残り／休憩（する）ing in her （競技場の）トラック一周.
The 殺人，大当り stunned 居住（者）s along the area's 狭くする dirt roads. Hundreds of people, some weeping, gathered outside the gates of the children's home and abutting 栄養 中心 the morning after Edwards' 殺人，大当り.
The youngsters at the home, many of them 十代の少年少女s, gathered together Wednesday to 準備する for a 助言者／カウンセラー's arrival and 計画（する） a 記念の service for Edwards, who they called "mom."
One of the youngsters wrote on a dusty car window: "Mom, Pierre loved you."
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A message for 殺害された missionary Roberta Edwards is seen on a dusty car window parked outside the Sonlight Children's Home in the Port-au-Prince 地区 Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Edwards who ran Sonlight was fatally 発射 by gunmen Saturday night as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a 居住の street. The 攻撃者s also kidnapped a 4-year-old from Edwards' car after 狙撃 her at の近くに 範囲. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
ADDS DAY AND MONTH - This Oct. 26, 2009 photo shows missionary Roberta Edwards 提起する／ポーズをとるing for a portrait in Henderson, Tennessee. The American missionary who had been working in Haiti for １０年間s was fatally 発射 by gunmen on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 in Port-au-Prince's Croix-des-Bouquets 地区 as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a 居住の street, 同僚s and police said. Edwards, 初めは from North Carolina, ran a children's home and a 栄養 中心 that also 供給するd poor youngsters with 基金ing for school 料金s. (Kristi Montague 経由で AP)
A child points to a piece of artwork by kidnapped 4-year-old Jonathan Paul, at the Sonlight Children's Home in the Port-au-Prince 地区 Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015. American missionary Roberta Edwards who ran Sonlight was fatally 発射 by gunmen Saturday night as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a 居住の street. The 攻撃者s also kidnapped Paul from Edwards' car after 狙撃 her at の近くに 範囲. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
The facebook page of 殺害された American missionary Roberta Edwards shows images of herself and 4-year-old Jonathan Paul, 陳列する，発揮するd on the laptop of preacher Widlord Thomas at the Sonlight Children's Home, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Edwards who ran Sonlight was fatally 発射 by gunmen Saturday night as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a 居住の street. The 攻撃者s also kidnapped Paul from Edwards' car after 狙撃 her at の近くに 範囲. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
着せる／賦与するs hang out to 乾燥した，日照りの at the Sonlight Children's Home in the Port-au-Prince 地区 Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. American missionary Roberta Edwards, who ran the home, was fatally 発射 by gunmen Saturday night as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a 居住の street. The 攻撃者s also kidnapped a 4-year-old child from Edwards' car after 狙撃 her at の近くに 範囲. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
