09-09-2011, 01:13 PM
CBC News
The mother of the man at the centre of a massive police manhunt in southeastern B.C. is asking her son to turn himself in.
"Please Randy, come home and visit me," Margaret Fink told CBC News on Friday morning from her home in Fernie, B.C.
RCMP say Randall Peter Hopley, 46, is a suspect in the possible abduction of three-year-old Kienan Hebert, who disappeared from his family home in nearby Sparwood, B.C., sometime overnight Tuesday.
The abduction of Kienan prompted police to issue an Amber Alert on Wednesday evening, asking drivers across B.C. and into Alberta to watch out for Hopley's vehicle, while more than 200 searchers scoured the community and the surrounding woods of the Elk Valley.
Margaret Fink, who is elderly, in frail health, and hooked up to oxygen, says she's not doing well since learning her son is wanted by police.
Fink says she saw her son for the first time in a year on Tuesday, the day before Kienan was reported missing.
"I'm shocked, I really am shocked. When they first come and told me, I'm still shocked," she said.
Fink says says in her heart, she doesn't believe Hopley took Kienan, but she's not sure.
"I would like Randy to come home with him and make sure [Kienan] is safe," she said.
The mother of the man at the centre of a massive police manhunt in southeastern B.C. is asking her son to turn himself in.
"Please Randy, come home and visit me," Margaret Fink told CBC News on Friday morning from her home in Fernie, B.C.
RCMP say Randall Peter Hopley, 46, is a suspect in the possible abduction of three-year-old Kienan Hebert, who disappeared from his family home in nearby Sparwood, B.C., sometime overnight Tuesday.
The abduction of Kienan prompted police to issue an Amber Alert on Wednesday evening, asking drivers across B.C. and into Alberta to watch out for Hopley's vehicle, while more than 200 searchers scoured the community and the surrounding woods of the Elk Valley.
Margaret Fink, who is elderly, in frail health, and hooked up to oxygen, says she's not doing well since learning her son is wanted by police.
Fink says she saw her son for the first time in a year on Tuesday, the day before Kienan was reported missing.
"I'm shocked, I really am shocked. When they first come and told me, I'm still shocked," she said.
Fink says says in her heart, she doesn't believe Hopley took Kienan, but she's not sure.
"I would like Randy to come home with him and make sure [Kienan] is safe," she said.