"It hurts our hearts": Rural Texas community mourns death of 7-year-old allegedly kidnapped and killed by delivery driver

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Investigators said Tanner Lynn Horner, a contract worker for FedEx, delivered a package to the house at about the same time Strand disappeared and took him into custody.Strand's grandfather posted a statement on Facebook, saying in part, "I want 5 minutes alone in a cell with the psycho that took our Athena away from us, but there's a soft gentle voice in the back of my head telling me I need to forgive him."Phile Erickson, the associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Cottondale in Paradise, whose son was in Strand's class at school, said the tragedy is "a good wake-up call to parents just in general just to be more aware of everything ... And so, you know, just keep loving them.He's being held on capital murder and aggravated kidnapping charges with a bond set for $1.5 million.FBI statistics show stranger abductions are rare and account for less than 1% of all kidnappings in 2021."

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