Atlanta police Friday were looking for the suspects who beat a man before forcing the victim into the trunk of his car and kidnapping him.
The victim, whose name has not been released, was later able to free himself when the suspects stopped the car in southwest Atlanta.
The victim told police that the incident began around midnight when he was at the Citgo gas station at Fulton Industrial Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive “and noticed some individuals watching him,” Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones told the AJC.
“As he left the gas station and proceeded down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, he noticed the suspects from the gas station following him in a silver truck,” Jones said.
She said that the victim told police that he turned into an apartment complex in the 3800 block of MLK, but the truck continued to follow him so he didn’t stop.
“While the victim was at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Bolton Road, two suspects exited the silver truck and approached his vehicle,” Jones said. “One suspect had a pistol and the other had a shotgun.”
The victim told police that he was removed from his Ford Taurus, pistol whipped and put into the trunk of the Taurus.
The suspects then drove the man around for a while in the trunk of his car, and when the vehicle stopped about two miles away on Branch Drive in southwest Atlanta, the victim “used the trunk release lever from inside the trunk and was able to escape,” Jones said.
The man ran to a nearby home and called police.
The suspects, two men and a woman, were believed to have fled in the silver truck. The victim was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment, and was in stable condition.
Police have made no arrests, Jones said.
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