Barbie
11-12-2004, 10:33 PM
Woman's abduction in California caught on tape (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1100272182878_95681382/?hub=World)
CTV.ca News Staff
Police in California are trying to find who was involved -- and what was going on -- after two men chased a woman at a shopping mall, then caught her and stuffed her into the trunk of a car.
It was all caught on video by a shopping mall security camera. And while several people saw it happen, no one did anything to stop it.
All of this happened last Sunday in Corona, California, which is about 65 kilometres southeast of Los Angeles.
Right now, police are trying to find out the exact identities of the apparent victim and her kidnappers.
The woman's videotaped reaction upon seeing the men suggested she knew them. Detective Frank Zellers told a local TV station that said the incident was being investigated as a kidnapping.
"It's very discouraging right now and it's really difficult for us, because we don't know who the victim is," he told KCAL-TV.
"It's obvious that some kind of crime occurred."
But police aren't ruling out that the "crime" they're talking about is not one of kidnapping but of creating a hoax.
A security guard at the mall heard the woman yelling for someone to call the police as she was being stuffed in the trunk, local police officer Jesse Jurado told The Associated Press.
A handful of shoppers were clearly visible in the foreground of the scene appeared to turn their heads and watch the incident.
On top of that, several motorists also saw what was going on as they drove through the scene.
A security camera with a view outside the front of the mall recorded the scene as the woman walked from a parking lot to the sidewalk outside the entrance.
When a black Toyota Solara raced up and braked, the woman looked over her shoulder at the car and took off running into a parking structure with the vehicle in pursuit.
Despite a fuzzy videotape image, the woman can be seen running down a parking aisle as two men jump out of the car and chase her.
One man threw the woman over his shoulder, carried her back to the car and put her in the trunk, which the other man had opened.
The car's right front tire was a smaller, spare donut-type tire, police said.
Police say several witnesses have called them this past week, but so far they have no clear leads on who was involved or what happened to the woman, the car or the two men.
With files from The Associated Press
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No one did anything about it? Nothing? Stood in amazement (amusement)?
CTV.ca News Staff
Police in California are trying to find who was involved -- and what was going on -- after two men chased a woman at a shopping mall, then caught her and stuffed her into the trunk of a car.
It was all caught on video by a shopping mall security camera. And while several people saw it happen, no one did anything to stop it.
All of this happened last Sunday in Corona, California, which is about 65 kilometres southeast of Los Angeles.
Right now, police are trying to find out the exact identities of the apparent victim and her kidnappers.
The woman's videotaped reaction upon seeing the men suggested she knew them. Detective Frank Zellers told a local TV station that said the incident was being investigated as a kidnapping.
"It's very discouraging right now and it's really difficult for us, because we don't know who the victim is," he told KCAL-TV.
"It's obvious that some kind of crime occurred."
But police aren't ruling out that the "crime" they're talking about is not one of kidnapping but of creating a hoax.
A security guard at the mall heard the woman yelling for someone to call the police as she was being stuffed in the trunk, local police officer Jesse Jurado told The Associated Press.
A handful of shoppers were clearly visible in the foreground of the scene appeared to turn their heads and watch the incident.
On top of that, several motorists also saw what was going on as they drove through the scene.
A security camera with a view outside the front of the mall recorded the scene as the woman walked from a parking lot to the sidewalk outside the entrance.
When a black Toyota Solara raced up and braked, the woman looked over her shoulder at the car and took off running into a parking structure with the vehicle in pursuit.
Despite a fuzzy videotape image, the woman can be seen running down a parking aisle as two men jump out of the car and chase her.
One man threw the woman over his shoulder, carried her back to the car and put her in the trunk, which the other man had opened.
The car's right front tire was a smaller, spare donut-type tire, police said.
Police say several witnesses have called them this past week, but so far they have no clear leads on who was involved or what happened to the woman, the car or the two men.
With files from The Associated Press
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No one did anything about it? Nothing? Stood in amazement (amusement)?