Concealed Carrier Thwarts Kidnapping And Sexual Assault After Noticing Woman In Distress, Holds Suspect At Gunpoint

By Brandon Curtis

REDDING, CALIFORNIA — An armed citizen carrying a concealed firearm, in California nonetheless, noticed a woman who appeared to be in distress and used his best judgement to enter into the situation.

That situation could have turned very bad, as he was unaware at the time that he was walking into an active kidnapping and sexual assault.

The suspect, just moments before, had beaten a woman that he knew and then kidnapped her sister. Who knows how it would have ended if the armed citizen hadn’t intervened.

Police said it all started shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, when people began reporting that a man was fighting with two women on the lawn of a home on the 2000 block of Westwood Avenue.

Sgt. Todd Cogle said the suspect, 44-year-old Carl Dudley Hulsey, was gone by the time officers got to the scene, and one of the women he’d attacked told them he’d also assaulted her sister and driven off with her.

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While police were searching for the suspect and the kidnapped woman, they received a tip that they were spotted at a nearby gas station.

As they headed to the gas station, calls …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation