Overview
- The 16-year-old was taken at gunpoint near a Hamtramck bus stop on April 13 and was found minutes later at a Detroit Sunoco.
- Classmates used a phone location app to tell police where she was and that sped officers to the store.
- Clerk Abdulrahman Abohatem saw her mouth the word “help,” stepped from behind the glass, and put the girl behind him.
- Officers arrested 48-year-old Donald Fields, seized his van and a handgun, and prosecutors charged him with kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, felonious assault, and firearm crimes.
- Police released surveillance and bodycam video of the abduction and arrest and local groups have honored the clerk with awards and donations.