Kansas issues Amber Alert for missing girls after two boys found dead in Leavenworth

Donny Jackson, the father of two girls who went missing from a home in Leavenworth Saturday, has been arrested. His vehicle was found by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol around mile marker 6 near Erick, Oklahoma, about 500 miles from the Leavenworth home where the girls went missing and two boys were found dead, law enforcement said.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation issued an Amber Alert for two girls under the age of 10 who went missing from the home.

Just after 1 p.m., the alert said, the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 4900 block of Hillside Road, where they discovered two dead boys.

Two girls, 7-year-old Nora Jackson and 3-year-old Aven Jackson, were missing from the home. Police say they believe the girl’s father, Donny Jackson, abducted them.

Kansas Amber Alerts tweeted that at 4:30 p.m. “we learned that the Kansas Highway Patrol made an unrelated car stop on the suspect’s vehicle on Highway 169 near the OK border today at approximately 12:35 p.m.”

The abducted children were in the vehicle, it said.

Police said they believe that the 11- and 14-year-old boys who were killed were brothers of the two abducted girls.

This story was originally published October 24, 2020 at 3:46 PM.