Suspect Killed in Amber Alert Abduction

Georgia authorities say a man suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend's two children has been shot to death by police after trying to run over an officer with his car. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said police caught up with25-year-old Jairo Bastos on a suburban Atlanta parking lot Friday after a motorist saw an Amber Alert describing the car and called authorities. Police found the missing 9-month-old and 22-month-old children unharmed but provided no other details. It was not immediately clear if they were in the car when Bastos was shot. Police also did not say immediately if they were the suspect's children. The children's mother Adrian Stearns called police Thursday to say Bastos had taken took off with them in her car. Bastos had recently been evicted from Stearns' apartment.

(Associated Press)