Driver Killed After Holding Gun to Girl for 100 Miles

YONCALLA, Ore. — A man kidnapped a 7-year-old girl and took her through 100 miles of terror Thursday, holding a gun to her head and shooting at motorists before he was killed by a police sharpshooter.

Kristina Jacobson, abducted 3 1/2 hours earlier from her baby-sitter’s house in Salem, ran from the car as police closed in. The slain gunman was not immediately identified.

“He had this little silver gun he put up on my head,” Kristina told the Associated Press. “He said if I don’t behave, he will put me in the trunk or shoot me.”

The chase ended after the blue Pontiac the man stole ran over spikes set by police, veered into the median and eventually flipped over. The man negotiated with police for about an hour while sitting in the overturned car and holding a gun to the girl, until a sharpshooter killed him with one shot to the head.

Kristina, who had requested police bring her Skittles during the negotiations, happily ate the candy as she recovered in a hospital with only a few metal fragments in her knee from the crash.

She said she was grateful to the sharpshooter.

“I wish he would come in the room so I can thank him,” she said.

She said she managed to put a seat belt on, just as her mother taught her, even though her hands were taped.

“I have to, just in case we get in a crash and that’s what happened,” she said.

Kristina said she used her Bambi book to smash a window and escape because she didn’t want the kidnapper’s blood to get on her sun dress.

“She’s obviously stronger than me,” said her mother, Shanna Jacobson.

During the chase, the man shot at several vehicles, hitting a 20-year-old woman in the neck and injuring a 7-month-old girl cut by glass fragments. Both were treated and released.