Sheriff: Girl unaware mother, brother were killed

Reuters

Hannah Anderson is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

By Patrick Garrity, NBC News

The Southern California girl rescued over the weekend in Idaho was taken against her will and not aware her mother and brother were dead until her rescuers told her, a San Diego County sheriff told a local television station Monday.

?It is clear from the information that we?ve received, that she was under extreme duress. She was taken out of the county, out of the state, clearly against her will,? Sheriff Bill Gore told FOX5 San Diego.

Hannah Anderson, 16, was rescued Saturday by federal agents in the Idaho wilderness. Her suspected abductor, James Lee DiMaggio, was killed in a shootout, authorities said, ending a week-long search.

DiMaggio, 40, was wanted in the killing of Christina Anderson, 44, and 8-year-old Ethan and the abduction of Hannah.

?The kidnapper, the murderer is dead. Our focus now is getting Hannah all the resources, the help she needs to get through this extremely traumatic ordeal that she?s been through,? Gore said in the interview. ?Plus, let?s not lose sight of the fact that she?s lost her mother and her brother, which she was not aware of until she was recovered up in Idaho."

The horseback riders in Idaho who spotted kidnapped teen Hannah Anderson and James Lee DiMaggio felt uneasy about the two people in the deep backwoods, saying Anderson "had a fearful look in her eyes."

The girl has been reunited with her father, who is expected to hold a news conference Monday.

Gore said in interviewing the girl, authorities learned that DiMaggio did have a "shoulder weapon and fired at least one shot,? he said.

Meanwhile, Hannah's grandmother has said it was "fitting" that DiMaggio was killed by an FBI sharpshooter.

Sara Britt, Hannah?s maternal grandmother, said death of DiMaggio ? known by the Anderson family as "Uncle Jim" ? had been for the best.

?The way it ended up for both Hannah and Jim. It?s fitting,??she told NBCSanDiego?on Sunday.

?No one wants to go through years of jury trials and putting Hannah through any of that,? she added.

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