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Shields guilty of kidnapping
Kidnapper
Donald Lee Shields Jr. is led from the courtroom by Phillip Tank Young on Friday afternoon. Shields was convicted by a jury on three counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, one count of false imprisonment, and one count of attempted aggravated assault.
Two days of emotional testimony from his victims produced a guilty verdict against Donald Lee Shields Jr. on Friday afternoon, leaving him facing 25 years in prison for especially aggravated kidnapping. Shields is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 26 for his role in holding four people hostage at a home on Cherry Springs Road in the Centertown area. The victims were kicked, threatened at gunpoint, and one was tied and hooked to the back of a pickup at one point.