A 63-year-old Seattle man was able to escape what could have been a deadly situation last week after he was beaten and kidnapped in the trunk of his own car.
Detective Judinna Gulpan shared in a statement that last Thursday, witnesses observed a car crash into a home in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood just after 5 a.m. After the crash, neighbors said they could hear someone calling for help.
“And then there was a screaming of ‘ahh, ahh!’ I think he was trying to scream for help,” neighbor Cheng Yu told KING5. “You can’t make this stuff up, it’s so absurd.”
As fire crews arrived at the scene and began to douse the flames of the crash, witnesses said it was then they “saw a man climb out of the trunk of the crashed vehicle.”
The man spoke with police about why he was in the car‘s trunk. He alleged “he had been assaulted by several suspects, then bound and placed in the trunk of his own vehicle,” Gulpan said.
The suspects who were driving the vehicle and allegedly assaulted the elderly man jumped out of the car to flee, according to Raegan McKibbon, who said she began helping the man who was “tied up with rope.”
“He was screaming, ‘Help me, help me, I‘ve just been kidnapped, call 911!’” McKibbon told the media outlet. “He’d been beaten up pretty bad. They cut his face with a knife and punched him and beat him up pretty badly.”
No one inside the home that the car hit was hurt in the accident, police noted.
There has been no update on the identity of the suspects, and no immediate arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing.
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