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Shelton woman escapes kidnapping
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty.com
A 33-year-old Shelton woman narrow-
ly escaped a kidnapping attempt early
Saturday morning on Olympic Highway
North.
The man accused of attacking her,
James Alan Shelton, 55, was convicted
in 1974 of rape and murder in Snohom-
ish County.
He was released from prison two years
ago.
At about 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, the
victim was walking up the hill on Olym-
pic Highway North near Harvard Street
when she heard a rustling in the bushes
to her left, said Lt. Les Watson of the
Shelton Police Department.
"She heard what sounded like foot-
steps," he said. "She assumed it was a
person and then this guy popped out be-
hind her."
Watson said the woman told police
that Shelton walked in the opposite di-
rection at first, then turned and attacked
her from behind.
"They ended up in some kind of a
struggle," he said.
The woman started screaming and bit
Shelton's hand. She broke away from
him and flagged down the first car that
came in her direction, which Watson said
happened to be a Mason County Sheriffs
deputy.
The sheriffs deputy alerted other
units in the area ~¢ith the Shelton's
description. After a few minutes,
Watson said, a Shelton Police Officer
stopped a dark-colored pickup truck
with its lights out. The driver and sole
occupant of the vehicle matched the
victim's description of her attacker
and had a fresh bleeding wound on his
hand.
The suspect, later identified as Shel-
ton, was booked on charges of second
degree kidnapping and fourth degree as-
sault and is being held on $100,000 bail
in the Mason County jail.
Watson said the department is not
sure what the purpose of Shelton's at-
tack was.
"He's been pretty evasive about mo-
tive," he said.
The victim was unharmed in the at-
tack.
"The victim seems to be doing fine,"
Watson said. "She's certainly going
through some difficult times as a re-
' sult."
Kiwanis pancakes pack Kneeland Park
Volunteer
Donald Jones
served
pancakes
Sunday morn-
ing at Knee-+
land Park for
the annual
Shelton
Kiwanis
Pancake
Breakfast.
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
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