Amber Alert Suspect Caught
Eastern NC - 4/26/2007
A one year old girl is safe after being the focus of a statewide Amber Alert on Thursday...

And investigators caught the man behind it hiding in a tool shed near his sister's home.

Authorities say 22 year old Jorge Angel Hernandez took his daughter, Junni Angel Rios, after shooting her mother to death.

Police say Hernandez shot and killed the woman outside a home on Highway 55 in Fort Barnwell around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

The Craven County Sheriff's Department and the Highway Patrol searched an area around CC Road in Beaufort County.

That's where they found the Chevy Tahoe Hernandez was allegedly driving.

Officials ended up finding Hernandez about a mile down from his sister's home on 2nd Street in Grimesland.

That's where he had dropped off his little girl, Junni, between 7 and 8 p.m.

Junni is now with her grandfather, the father of the woman killed, in Fort Barnwell.

Hernandez will make his first court appearance Friday morning at the Craven County Courthouse.

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