A KFC employee in Tennessee helped rescue an allegedly kidnapped woman after she left a note at the restaurant “begging for help,” police mentioned.
The woman left the note at the fast-food chain at 6262 Winchester Road in Memphis on Sunday night, prompting a KFC worker to name police.
Officers arrived at the scene simply after 5 p.m. and located the sufferer and a person named Diego Glay, her boyfriend, who matched the descriptions offered by the KFC worker, in response to the arrest affidavit.
When officers approached them, Glay fled on foot.Â
A foot chase ensued and he was shortly after apprehended.
The sufferer got here to Tennessee by Greyhound bus from one other state to fulfill Glay, however the couple acquired into an argument and when she tried to go away him a number of instances he refused to let her go, police mentioned in a news launch.
“Glay held her bodily towards her will with bodily assaults, threats and being armed with a handgun,” Memphis police said.
The woman told police that Glay had been physically abusive towards her by punching her in the face and when she attempted to leave him he took her phone and kept her from leaving his sight for days at a time, the arrest affidavit stated.
Glay, 23, was charged with kidnapping and evading arrest.Â
He is being held in Shelby County Jail on bond set at $35,000. NBC News has reached out to his lawyer for comment on the charges.
His preliminary hearing is set for June 1.