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Police: Woman Kidnapped From Wal-Mart Parking Lot- Victim Said Men Held Her At Gunpoint, Forced To Drive

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A woman said she was held at gunpoint and kidnapped from a local Wal-Mart parking lot Wednesday night. The 32-year-old wasn't physically hurt but she said it was still a traumatizing trip to Wal-Mart in New Smyrna Beach. Police said the two men involved in the armed robbery, carjacking and kidnapping were on the run Wednesday night, which made shoppers afraid for their own safety.

It appears that the Domestic Urban Terrorists are getting bolder in the lovely little town of New Smyrna Beach, because the woman who was carjacked and held hostage stated that the young black man walked up to her at the Wal-Mart on state Road 44 in broad daylight, threatened her by pointing a gun to her head and demanded she get into her sport utility vehicle and drive. This is clearly a hostage situation that could have turned deadly. Gun Shy’s first rule of safety. NEVER get in the vehicle and go to a secondary location. Act like you are going to be compliant, and as he is getting in take off and head for cover. If the perpetrator decides to shoot you there in broad daylight which is risky for them, the chances are much better that you can get help immediately and that you will live and they will be apprehended, because unless you take a round in a vital organ or the central nervous system, you will most likely survive as statistics show. If you go with them to a secondary remote location and they shoot or stab you, even if your wound is not as serious, you could eventually bleed out and die because there will be no help available. The best way to deal with that situation would have been to drop the keys and try to get moving and take cover, preferably behind the engine compartment of another vehicle in the parking lot. They would most likely take your vehicle and flee the scene instead of chasing after you. Here is a quote from an earlier article that can be found here:

If someone has a pistol and is definitely intending to inflict bodily harm and you are unarmed, and you are not close enough to close the gap or do not posses enough training to disarm them, do NOT remain stationary. Get moving immediately by making your escape in an irregular zig zag pattern using random direction changes to increase the difficulty of the shooter sighting you (hopefully they will not have a laser sighting system) while creating distance between you and the shooter as you search for effective cover. One cannot out run a bullet in a straight line, so making it more difficult for the shooter to train his sights on you is a better tactic that may decrease the odds of them delivering a round that could end your career. This is not to guarantee that you won't get hit, but being wounded and ending up dead are two vastly different situations with two very different outcomes.

Let me be the first to say publicly, that New Smyrna Beach Police understand effective law enforcement and do a good job keeping that town clean, safe, and family friendly. It seems recently that there is a new wave of insurgents that are trying to take advantage of that family friendly atmosphere in that area of Volusia County. Within the last few months there have been some problems in that town, including the stabbing of a security guard at the Bealls outlet next door to the Walmart in broad daylight in January of this year. There was also a brawl in that parking lot recently, indicating that it has become a hangout for people with bad intentions. There was also a McDonalds robbery, a Winn Dixie robbery, and a stolen vehicle chase and recovery. One armed pharmacy robber had his career ended by a former New Smyrna Police Officer recently as well. It has been rumored by some that these incidents have been occurring with greater frequency because people or their associates from other areas of the county who visit them to plot criminal activities, reside in a certain area of the town that is known for housing residents with criminal inclinations. If this is correct, maybe it is time to start doing sweeps to see if their are any "tenants" or people illegally occupying the premises with outstanding warrants or probation violations, or start doing weekly code enforcement inspections on those properties and start assessing fines, and if they are “unsafe”, it might be prudent to condemn them and then consider bringing in the bulldozers as they have done recently in the greater Orlando area. Gun Shy is of the opinion, that the New Smyrna Beach Police Department, as always are on top of this situation, and that the final outcome will be favorable, and effective law enforcement will prevail as it has in the past in my favorite little town.