UPDATE: The suspect in the attack has been arrested and the victim has been found. Darnell Rodgers, 23, was arrested at 3 a.m. on Thursday and charged with domestic battery and kidnapping. Police are crediting the public release of the video as the reason Rodgers was able to be caught. There is no word on the condition of the victim.
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Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, are hoping that a doorbell camera recording will help catch a man who was filmed violently holding a woman captive.
The footage comes from just after midnight on New Year’s Day. The motion-detecting camera shows a woman running from a car and banging on the door of a suburban Las Vegas home. A man was recorded chasing her and throwing her to the ground before kicking her in the stomach and dragging her back to his white Hyundai Sonata.
“Stop!” the victim screamed.
“Why would you f—ing do that?” the man responds. “Get in the car.”
The homeowner shared the footage with the police, who put it on YouTube. They are encouraging anyone who might know either the victim or the assailant to come forward.
According to police, the woman is white and between 20 and 30 years old, while the attacker is a black man of about the same age with short hair. He was driving the car that the woman temporarily escaped from.
It is not clear if investigators have any leads on the two.
