FORT LAUDERDALE – A grandmother is stunned after her grandson, Rondel McDonald is arrested.
“He would always tell me grandma, I’m making you proud,” said Jennie Francois.
McDonald is charged with kidnapping a teenage girl in Fort Lauderdale at gunpoint and sexually assaulting her. He’s also accused of trying to kidnap two others.
“That’s not Rondel. Everybody that know Rondel know that’s not Rondel, something was wrong I don’t know what,” his grandfather Garford Francois said.
McDonald is facing a total of 12 charges for the three cases; investigators say he confessed to each of them. In all three cases, he’s accused of driving up to young girls, pulling a gun and ordering them into his car.
“He pointed the gun at me, and then he pointed it at the car, and he was like, ‘So get in the car,’ and I continued backing up. I was like, please, you don’t have to do this,” said one of the would-be victims.