Missouri hero awarded truck, Blunt’s praise
Published: January 30, 2007
The Franklin County teenager who helped authorities find missing boys Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck got a surprise reward Wednesday.
Daimler-Chrysler presented Mitchell Hults with a new Dodge Ram pickup truck.
Hults was with Ben just before his abduction on Jan. 8 and gave police the description of the white pickup truck that eventually led police to the Kirkwood apartment where Ben and Shawn were found a few days later, authorities said.
Hults turns 16 next month.
Later Wednesday, Hults was honored again — this time as a special guest of Gov. Matt Blunt during his State of the State speech.
Introduced as “a Missouri hero” by Blunt, Hults received one of the loudest and longest standing ovations of the night from the hundreds of legislators and audience members in the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City.
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