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After his shift at Hershey Foods, Jacob Evans of Memphis, Tennessee, drove home--right into a kidnapping.
Arriving at home, Evans and a friend riding with him were immediately accosted by two men in their 20s who were carrying guns. The two armed men told Evans' friend to exit the car, and then, with Evans still in the driver's seat, they entered themselves, one in the front seat, one in the back.
The two men, who told Evans that they wanted him to withdraw $10,000 from a nearby bank, apparently were the same two men who had robbed Evans at gunpoint in his front yard two weeks earlier, stealing $400 from him. When Evans told the men that he didn't have an account at the bank that they wanted him to go to, he was directed to go to his own bank, which was about two miles distant.
As Evans was driving to his bank, the First Tennessee Bank, the robbers told him that if he didn't withdraw $10,000, they'd kill him. En route, he looked for police, but he didn't see any. As he pulled up to the bank, Evans told the robbers that he needed a withdrawal slip to get the money. The robber in the front seat gave his gun to his cohort and then went into the bank to get the ...