CLEVELAND, Ohio – Two men in ski masks tried to kidnap a woman Wednesday as she left a Bible study group near Shaker Square, police said.
But other study group members came outside when they heard the 21-year-old woman screaming, and the men ran off, according to a police report.
Investigators are still searching for the two men who attempted to abduct the woman just after 8:30 p.m. outside a house on East 128th Street near Larchmere Boulevard.
The woman told detectives she was getting into her 2005 Saturn Scion when two men wearing black ski masks, black coats and blue jeans approached her. The men told her to “get in the car” as they tried to push her into the back seat, according to the police report.
The woman began to kick and scream, and the men started to walk away. But the men grabbed the hood of her coat when she tried to run back into the house that hosted the Bible study group, the report says.
The woman’s friends came outside as the men were dragging her up the driveway. The men then ran off through backyards on East 128th Street, the report says.
The woman declined medical treatment but told police she would go to a hospital later if needed.
Officers searched the area and found footprints leading through the backyards, but they did not recover any evidence at the scene, the report says.
Investigators are working with neighbors to obtain surveillance video that might show the men, the report says.
Shaker Heights police said Thursday that they had not received any reports of similar incidents happening in the Shaker Square area. Cleveland police did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
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