Little Girl Finds Man Tied Up in NJ Car Trunk: Witness, Cops
A little girl walking her dog in New Jersey Thursday morning heard screams coming from the trunk of a car and alerted her mom -- then cops found a man tied up inside, according to authorities and witnesses.
The girl was walking along Lindsley Avenue in Irvington around 7:10 a.m. when her mother, Marie Banks, says she heard a scratching sound. Then the girl heard it again. Banks says her daughter told her she said, "Hello?" and someone from inside the trunk said, "Hello! Help me, help me, help me!"
The mother called authorities, who made the disturbing discovery. The victim's condition wasn't clear but he was speaking to police, authorities said. The man told cops he was kidnapped overnight by two suspects in Hillside and forced to go to ATMs to withdraw money. Then he was found in a car a few miles away.
It wasn't immediately clear if he knew the suspects, nor could police say how long he was trapped in the vehicle. Emergency radio correspondence indicated he could have been in the trunk for half a day, around 12 hours. Temperatures dipped into the low 10s overnight in the area, though bitter wind chills in the single digits made it feel colder.
Banks said her daughter told her, "It's like I was just in a horror movie."
The mother told the girl she was a hero.
"I told my daughter she saved a life this morning because there's no telling how long this person was locked in this trunk in this frigid weather," Banks said.
Chopper 4 showed an ambulance and several law enforcement vehicles at the scene as a trio of cops stood conversing in the middle of the road. That ambulance took an individual to the hospital, Chopper 4 footage showed.
More than a half-dozen other officers were later seen canvassing the scene as a tow truck hauled away a black sedan. The investigation is ongoing.
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