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by: 13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 2, '22 11:06pm

Amber Alert that went out yesterday

Amber Alert: FedEx contract driver accused of taking and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Investigators believe the 7-year-old girl who vanished from her North Texas home on Wednesday was abducted and then killed about an hour later.

Without knowing her fate, authorities issued a statewide Amber Alert the following day for Athena Strand, whom the Wise County Sheriff's Office said was found dead early Friday evening.

Law enforcement did not immediately say where she was found or how she died.

They revealed, though, that a tip led them to a FedEx contract driver who was making a delivery near the girl's home at about the same time she went missing. Investigators believe that driver, who's identified as 31-year-old Tanner Horner, took and then killed Athena.

The sheriff's office did not elaborate on how they connected Horner to the missing girl.

Horner was taken into custody and booked into the Wise County Jail on capital murder and aggravated kidnapping charges. His bond was set at $1.5 million.

abc13.com/athena-str and-killed-tanner-ho rner-arrested-amber- alert-tx-paradi

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14
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 2, '22 11:59pm

Fricking monster!

13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 12:09am

Fricking monster!

@chasinghosts :

It's so sad!

14
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 12:14am

It is a horrible world out there. I just cannot understand the changed that have happened since I was a little girl.

13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 12:16am

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14
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 12:24am

They are going to be sued for this one. They need to bring back their own vehicles and uniformed drivers. This is what they end up with subcontracting. Just like the USPS driver over here, half the mail is gone over or stolen.

17
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 12:44am

@chasinghosts : Maybe these things happened in a different way when we were kids and there was no way to get the information out.

14
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 12:51am

chasinghosts : Maybe these things happened in a different way when we were kids and there was no way to get the information out.

@ladybeachbum : They may have. I remember walking to school with a bunch of kids and some guy in a station wagon asked for directions. I was maybe 8 or 9. I walked over to tell him where to go and he had his thing out and I just turned around and yelled to everyone to run and we all did all the 3 more blocks and ran into school. I had no idea what to do, had never heard of such a thing and so we all just kept it to ourselves. That's the only incident I remember until I was in my teens, and then we still rarely heard anything.

13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 1:15am

ladybeachbum : I was maybe 8 or 9. I walked over to tell him where to go and he had his thing out and I just turned around and yelled to everyone to run and we all did all the 3 more blocks and ran into school.

@chasinghosts :

Oh my! Did you tell your parents?

6
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 8:03am

Absolutely horrible. What a freaking monster. Hope he gets the death penalty

14
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 3, '22 11:37am

chasinghosts : Oh my! Did you tell your parents?

@West-Tex : No, in those days I had good instincts but wouldn't have known how to explain it. I just knew it was scary and dangerous. Back then they didn't tell you anything until you had Sex Ed.

13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 5, '22 2:06am

Athena Strand Killing: Community asked to wear pink on Monday in memory of 7-year-old

www.fox4news.com/new s/athena-strand-kill ing-wear-pink

17
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 5, '22 2:22am

@West-Tex : They should just let a few mothers in the jail and save money. That guy doesn't deserve to live another day.

13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 9, '22 1:02am

FedEx driver strangled 7-year-old Athena Strand in van after accidentally hitting her: warrant

abc13.com/athena-str and-death-update-fed ex-driver/12546071/

I don't believe him!

13 OP
~ 2 years, 1 mo ago Dec 9, '22 1:02am

Horner allegedly told authorities that he strangled her after accidentally hitting her with his van while making a delivery at her home, according to an arrest warrant. Investigators said he told them that Strand wasn't seriously hurt after he hit her while backing up, but he panicked and put her in his van. He said she was talking to him and told him her name, the affidavit said. Horner also told police during the interview that he strangled Athena because she was going to tell her father about being hit by the FedEx truck, according to the warrant.