Neighbor Charles Ramsey said he was at home when he saw a man from across the street running to the house next door. When Ramsey went outside, he said, he saw a young woman who said she was trying to escape the house.
I heard screaming. I'm eating my McDonald's. I come outside. I see this girl goin' NUTS.
I'm callin' 911 for Amanda Berry? I thought this girl was dead, you know what I mean?... And the detective, uh (f, Cook! Detective Cook says, Charles, you know who you rescued?
That girl Amanda told the police, I ain't just the only one. It's some more girls up in that house. My neighbor said, You got some big testicles to pull this off, bro...
I barbecued with this dude! We eat RIBS and what not, and listen to salsa music!... There's nothin' exciting about him, until TODAY. Hehehe. I knew somethin' was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Somethin' is WRONG here. Dead giveaway! Deaaaddddd giveaway. Deaaaaadddddddddddddd giveaway. She's got problems. That's the only reason she's running to a black man!"
Ramsey is the kind of Black man that most African-Americans never want to see on the news. His cartoonish manner, failure to speak properly, and outward appearance make him seem like a walking stereo type. He has been and internet sensation, and the butt of tongue in cheek jokes whispered amongst the media who are doing everything except saying that he represents the African-American majority. But none of that matters. He is still a HERO!
When the door would not open Ramsey helped kick it down, he said, then allowed Berry to call 911. The young woman carried her child through the broken door, and told Ramsey it belonged to her captor. It's unclear who is the child's father.
“Help me, I’m Amanda Berry.”
With one frantic 911 call on Monday evening, three women missing for years were found in a Cleveland house where they had been held against their will by three brothers, police in Ohio said.
“I’ve been kidnapped,” Berry, who disappeared a decade ago, told the dispatcher. “I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m out here. I’m free now.”
Authorities heaped praise on Berry, now 27 and the mother of a 6-year-old.
"The real hero here is Amanda," said Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba.
Berry and two other women, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, went missing between 2000 and 2004 in separate incidents. The women were all between the ages of 14 and 20 when they vanished.
Neighbors and relatives celebrated the happy ending, but for some, the years had taken their toll. Berry’s mother died in 2006, not knowing whether her daughter was alive or dead.
Three suspects are under arrest former school-bus driver Ariel Castro, 52, and his brothers Pedro, 54, and O'Neal, 50, Cleveland police said. A search warrant related to the arrest was executed by police at an address on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, police said.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said at a Tuesday press conference that there are many unanswered questions: “Why were they taken, how they were taken and how they remained undetected in the city of Cleveland for all this time?”
The three women were taken to nearby Metro Health Medical hospital, along with Berry's child, officials said.
All three women were released from the hospital Tuesday morning, the hospital said in a statement, after reporting earlier in the morning that they had been in "fair condition."
The three disappearances had stumped police in Cleveland and shaken the community for years. Berry was reported missing on April 21, 2003 after she phoned her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a fast food restaurant. About one year after that, 14-year-old DeJesus vanished while walking home from school.
Police said their records showed two visits to the home in recent years. In 2000, they responded to a call about a fight from Ariel Castro. In 2004, after Castro was accused of leaving a child on a bus, authorities went to the house but no one was home.
Authorities said they never stopped looking for the missing women, running down tips and even digging up two backyards. The break came when Berry summoned the courage to escape.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said at a Tuesday press conference that there are many unanswered questions: “Why were they taken, how they were taken and how they remained undetected in the city of Cleveland for all this time?”
Good question, sounds like a system failure to me. A system failure that could have cost these young women there lives. Thank God for Charles Ramsey. The one man who was not afraid to do what Cleveland Police could not.
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Side Bar: I've been trying to figure out who Ramsey reminds me of............... "Sho Nuff" from Berry Gordy's "The Last Dragon"! He must have the glow.
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