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Anyone with information should call the Hoke Sheriffs Department at (910) 875-5111 or 1-800 842-9111 Donations to the Brittany Locklear Reward Fund should be sent co Fidelity Bank Box 416 Raeford NC 28376 KILLER Continued from page 1A ston 30 in his first year as a principal went to classroom sat on a tiny chair and gathered eight kindergartners close to him going to talk about being he said somebody took one of our friends said the children Billy Brunson 6 pointed upward he said All the teachers and students knew Brittany the youngest of 425 pupils at the school one of the smallest at 3 feet and 35 pounds and one of the friendliest The first time she met teacher Sandra Horne Brittany jumped into her arms and said love you was just a precious little said Eloise Furr her other teacher was a talker and a Until Brittany's killer is found teachers and principals are urging parents to walk their children to bus stops and stay with them until they get on the bus The case gripping the area is relatively rare Hoke County southwest of Fayetteville has only a half-dozen murders a year In North Carolina 23 children under age 5 were murdered in 1996 up from seven in 1995 And nationally each year a stranger abducts a child about 300 times and in about 100 of those cases the child is murdered The Hoke Sheriffs Department the State Bureau of Investigation and the FBI are all on case A slew of investigators are looking for leads by sifting through evidence and interviews and following dozens of tips on the brown truck whose driver snatched Brittany also trying to put together a sketch of the abductor They have talked to father who lives in Pembroke but has had little contact with her since she was bom not a focus of the investigation the Sheriffs Department said In the pre-dawn darkness Friday with roosters crowing officers set up a checkpoint on Gainey Road near where Brittany was taken They stopped drivers hoping that a regular commuter might have noticed something It was about the same time Wednesday when Brittany waited for her bus at the end of the dirt road from the mobile home Her mother Connie Chavis watched from a window about 200 yards away but stepped away briefly to go to the bathroom When she looked again Brittany was gone Chavis thought the bus had come by until neighbors told her Brittany had been taken by a white man driving the pickup When bus driver Nancy Oxen-dme see Brittany she thought the parents had taken her to school But when the bus arrived mother and stepfather were waiting They went to the Department Officers began searching as did hundreds of soldiers emergency workers and volunteers Two hours after Brittany disappeared deputies found her purple backpack green overalls and pink-and-white sneakers along a dirt road about two miles away from her home was hoping find her said her stepfather Charles Chavis 30 deep down inside I had a feeling she About 2pm Thursday an officer found Brittany in a ditch in woods a few hundred yards from her backpack The family minister told her parents who collapsed on the floor screaming Sheriff Byrd told stunned somber searchers Friday yellow police tape still marked where her clothing and Eddie Ray Bullard (left) want his 11-year-old son Clecy waiting for the bus alone anymore "That could have been my little boy or any of the he says body were found At 18-month-old stepsister Brianna home family and friends gath- Connie Chavis 27 showed off ered to support her parents and pictures of her daughter She said GASILOGS 1 4- 1 It P'y I 50 OFF 1 1 Christmas Merchandise jp Galvanized Zaki ORIENTAL RUGS An extraordinary selection of over 1 2000 rugs from India China Pakistan Turkey Iran Afghanistan Nepal Compare Qualify Price Before You Buv! 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