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Saturday, September 13 2014, 12:01 AM EDT
UPDATE: New Information About Suspect and Victims... Kentucky Police Investigating Woman's Abduction When Son Found Dead
WARREN COUNTY -- For thousands of folks stuck in their cars for hours Friday afternoon, the scene on I-75 was a major traffic headache. But for one Kentucky family and community, it was  deadly tragedy.
 
At 10 Friday morning, the body of 17 year old Michael Mahoney was found with two gunshot wounds in his Mayfield, Kentucky home. His mother, 34 year Kimberly Thomas was missing.
 
At the same time, 27 miles away in Paducah, police were investigating a peculiar scene.
Surviellence video showed a naked woman apparently being forced into a white Yukon.
 
"The female got out of the vehicle, covered and blood. The male subject grabbed her and put her back inside the vehicle,"Graves County Sheriff Dwayne Redmon said Friday from his Kentucky office.
 
Terry Froman, an ex boyfriend of Thomas and the owner of a white Yukon, was seen at his mother's house, covered in blood sometime that morning.
 
Investigators determined it was Froman who  killed his ex-girfriend's son, then abducted her fleeing north.
 
"Preliminary investigation shows the son was trying to protect his mother when he was shot," Redmon explained.
 
Just after 1:00 pm, Ohio State troopers saw the suv on I-75 at OH-63 and 122.
 
OSP tells us troopers heard several gunshots befor they reached the SUV. Froman was taken into custody with a minor self-inflicted gunshot wound. Thomas was found lifeless.
 
"We was hoping it turned out differently. That at least we'd find her alive. Unfortunately, that didn't happen," Redmon stated with a heavy heart. "This one was hard to deal with. You got a 17 year old kid defending his mother who was executed."
 
Froman is facing a murder and an abduction charge in Kentucky. And is expected to face a murder charge in here in Warren County.


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MAYFIELD, Kentucky -- State Police and Paducah city police on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, had already been investigating reports of an abduction of a woman at a convenience store.

Paducah police were reviewing surveillance video from earlier Friday of a naked female getting out of a white 2004 GMC Yukon and then being forced to get back into the vehicle.

Kentucky State Police said they received another report that 41-year-old Terry Froman had been to his mother's house in Paducah covered in blood.

According to the Graves County Sheriff's Office, Froman was "very uncooperative in telling his mother what he had been involved in."

Police say Kimberly Thomas of Mayfield was Froman's ex-girlfriend. She was reportedly abducted from her house, where her son, 17-year-old Michael Eli Mahoney, was shot twice. He was declared dead at the home.

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers pulled over Froman's Yukon about 1:15 p.m. Friday on I-75 northbound in Warren County, where shots were fired in the vehicle.

Troopers say they found Froman with a gunshot wound that was not life-threatening. Thomas was dead in the backseat.



Earlier coverage:

UPDATE: Video of Manhunt Arrest, OSHP Update

WARREN COUNTY -- Traffic along I-75 northbound has begun moving again after an hours long delay following a shooting and arrest of a murder and abduction suspect.

Traffic remains backed up as of 5:45 p.m. Friday.



Earlier coverage:

WARREN COUNTY -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol said during a news conference that they were alerted at 12:30 p.m. today (Friday, Sept. 12, 2014) to be on the lookout for a homicide and abduction suspect from Kentucky who could be heading to Ohio.

OSP Lt. Craig Cvetan say they identified pings from the suspect's cell phone and then found the white GMC Yukon along I-75 northbound in Warren County.

Troopers initiated a traffic stop at 1:14 p.m. but the suspect drove for about a mile farther before pulling over. A minute later, Cvetan said, shots were fired in the Yukon. But troopers waited until 1:41 p.m. for backup before approaching the vehicle. The suspect was taken into custody without further incident.

He had sustained a gunshot wound that is not considering life threatening.

Cvetan said troopers found a woman dead in the Yukon's backseat. The injured man was transported to a nearby hospital.

The woman reportedly is the mother of a teenage boy who was found dead earlier.

Graves County (Kentucky) Sheriff Dewayne Redmon says 41-year-old Terry Froman of
Brookport, Illinois, was taken into custody Friday after Ohio
authorities stopped his vehicle and found 34-year-old Kim Thomas dead inside. Redmon
says murder and kidnapping charges have been filed against Froman.

Redmon says 17-year-old Michael Eli Mahoney's body was found by authorities in his home Friday morning in Mayfield, Kentucky.


Photos of Thomas and Mahoney courtesy: WPSD/Paducah



Earlier coverage:

UPDATE: Teen Found Dead in Home, Mother's Body Found in Car on I-75

WARREN COUNTY (AP) -- A western Kentucky sheriff says a teenage boy has been killed and his mother abducted by an ex-boyfriend and found dead in a car along I-75 in southwest Ohio.

Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon says 41-year-old Terry Froman of Brookport, Illinois, was taken into custody Friday after Ohio authorities stopped his vehicle and found the woman dead inside. Redmon says murder and kidnapping charges have been filed against Froman.

The sheriff says 17-year-old Michael Mahoney's body was found by authorities in his home Friday morning in Mayfield, Kentucky.

Redmon says 34-year-old Kim Thomas' abduction led to a multi-state search.

He says the bloodied Thomas tried to flee at a food mart in Paducah, Kentucky, on Friday morning, but Froman caught her, put her in the vehicle and took off. Authorities stopped the vehicle in the Cincinnati area.



Original coverage from September 12, 2014:

UPDATE: I-75 SB Lanes Reopen Following Police Incident near MM 31

WARREN COUNTY -- The southbound lanes of Interstate 75 have been reopened between SR 122 and 63 following a police incident. The northbound lanes remain closed. 

We have a crew on the scene now and will have a full report coming up on ABC 22 News at 6 p.m. and FOX 45 News at 6:30 p.m.UPDATE: New Information About Suspect and Victims... Kentucky Police Investigating Woman's Abduction When Son Found Dead

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