Horror moment bearded man carries away terrified woman ‘crying for help’ before driving off in apparent kidnapping
- Police are investigating the gruesome events as a possible kidnapping incident
- They are now calling on the community to help identify the people in the video
This is the horrific moment a bearded man grabbed a woman as she screamed for help before bundling her into a car during an apparent kidnapping in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Terrifying video captured by a security camera is helping police piece together a “possible kidnapping” in a Portland suburb as they call on the community to help identify the victim and suspect who remain at large.
The shocking footage shows the woman ringing the doorbell at a stranger’s home near Southeast 32nd Avenue and E. Main Street as a man attacks her from behind.
She is heard shouting: ‘Please help me! Please help me!’
The suspect then appears to drag the woman back to a white pickup truck before joining traffic and driving off into the night.
The woman is seen running to a stranger’s house and ringing the doorbell on Sunday
A man attacks her from behind and grabs her as she screams ‘Please help me’
Police say the woman was in the home around 10:45 p.m. on Sunday, April 21, when the horror unfolded.
They say the video appears to show the woman “screaming for help before being picked up and taken away by the man pictured above.”
Hillsboro Police are actively investigating the events as a “possible kidnapping incident” and are urging those who may be able to help identify the people in the video to reach out.
The residents of the house said this with the doorbell camera KGW News they were ‘traumatized’.
Marisol, who did not share her full name, told the station she did not recognize either person in the video and immediately contacted 911 after receiving a video alert.
Marisol said she couldn’t stop thinking about the woman’s scream and described the horror she witnessed.
“The way she grabs herself at the door in the video, if you see it, that’s not normal.”
‘I just want her found. “I just want to know she’s safe,” she said.
Police shared no identifying characteristics of either party in the grainy black-and-white video.
The woman can be seen wearing glasses. She has long hair and a light-colored outfit.
In a video still, the suspect appears to have a short beard and short dark hair.
He is wearing a light top and dark pants.
Police are treating the incident, captured on the home’s surveillance camera, as a possible kidnapping
The suspect appears to take the woman back to a white pickup truck before driving away
Anyone with information about this incident or the identities of the people in the video is asked to contact the Hillsboro Police Department at 503-629-0111 or 911. Case number 53-2024-7882.
DailyMail.com contacted the Hillsboro Police Department for comment.
An amber alert remains in Oregon following the separate disappearance of Roman Huizar, who disappeared from West Richland, WA on April 21.
West Richland police issued the alert believing one-year-old Roman had been kidnapped by Elias Huizar, 39, on Monday evening.
Huizar is also suspected of fatally shooting his ex-wife outside an elementary school in West Richland.