UPDATE:Police: abducted mom, 4 children found safe

ELKHART, Ind. - A mother and her four children were found safe Tuesday\nnight at a motel, three days after police said they were abducted by the\nwoman's former boyfriend.\nThe man, Jerry D. White, 30, was arrested, Detective Sgt. Bill Wargo said.\nAuthorities issued an Amber Alert for the four children, ages 16 months to 9\nyears old, and their mother, 31-year-old Kimberly N. Walker, on Saturday.\nPolice said White broke into Walker's house about 2 a.m. Saturday and shot\nher sister's boyfriend, Lathie Turnage, 30, of Chicago, once in the face and\nonce in the chest. White then held everyone captive until leaving with\nWalker and the children nearly 10 hours later, police said.\nWargo said investigators were able to trace the family to the Sleepy Hollow\nmotel on the city's north side because Walker had made three calls to family\nmembers from a nearby pay phone saying they were safe.\nWargo said officers knocked on the door of their motel room and heard some\nrumbling inside, after which Walker opened the door.\n"She was sobbing hysterically and physically shaking like I've never seen\nanybody shake," Wargo said. "I asked her if she was Kim. She very hesitantly\nshook her head yes. We grabbed her and pulled her out of the room and she\nwas rushed away behind another building."\nWargo said he then began yelling for the children, but at first got no\nresponse.\n"I continued to yell for the kids and the oldest boy Jaylan, I saw him poke\nhis head out kind of as the big brother," he said. "I asked him to come out to me and as he came running out they all came out in order like a row of\nducks.\nOfficers caught White as he was trying escape through an air duct in the\nroom, Wargo said.\nAn arrest warrant was issued charging White with attempted murder and\nseveral counts of confinement. Police said White was the father of all four\nchildren.\nTurnage's girlfriend, Pamela Walker, said he was in critical condition\nTuesday but doctors were optimistic about his prognosis.\n"I'm thankful," she said of the rescue of her sister's family. "I'm thankful\nthat my niece, my nephew, my sister, I'm thankful that they're back."\nPolice said White had been harassing Walker for several days and that her\nsister and her sister's boyfriend were staying with the family. Walker\nreported to police Friday that White had confined her in her car before\nstealing it, authorities said.\nThe police search for the family had extended into Chicago, where\nauthorities said White has friends and family, but they were found in their\nhometown of Elkhart, about 20 miles east of South Bend in northern Indiana.\nPolice had been especially concerned about the oldest child, 9-year-old\nJaylan, because he has severe asthma and requires use of a ventilator every\nfew hours. Wargo said the boy did have an inhaler for his asthma with him.\nHe and his siblings Justin Walker, 8; Kyara Walker, 6; and 16-month-old\nKayla Walker were at the police station watching cartoons following their\nrescue, Wargo said.\n"Everybody's perfectly fine," he said. "Everybody's doing great"