LA GRANGE – A Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office detective heading to a report of a fight found a woman in the woods begging for help.
According to an incident report, a call went in to 911 at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday describing a fight in the 500 block of Firetower Road.
Detective Josh Dunham arrived to an apartment complex and was told by a friend of the victim that the victim “was being dragged by her hair into the woods by (the suspect,) Randy Gray.” Dunham wrote he could hear screams coming from the woods behind the complex and another deputy joined him as they searched.
“The female was located on her knees on the ground approximately 100 yards into the wooded area,” Dunham reported. “The female was screaming and crying uncontrollably as she began clutching onto my arm begging for us to help her and her son. She was saying ‘he was going to kill me, he tried to kill me.’”
Gray, 45, fled the area but additional units arrived and he was caught in a field between the complex and a neighborhood south of East Washington Street.
According to the report, EMS personnel were asked to treat Gray’s bleeding right forearm, but he declined treatment and signed a waiver to that effect.
Gray was booked into the Lenoir County Detention Center without bond on charges of felony second-degree kidnapping and assault on a female. He’s due in Lenoir County District Court on Dec. 4.
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