Carlsbad Woman Foils Her Captor

A 21-year-old Carlsbad woman escaped her captor amid a volley of bullets, foiling an attempted kidnaping and robbery Saturday evening in Escondido, police said.

Angelia Dawn Hume drove to the Oakhill Apartment complex in the 1300 block of Oakhill Drive at 8:40 p.m. Saturday, intending to visit friends. Hume parked her car, walked toward the building and realized that she’d forgotten her jacket, police said.

Hume headed back to her car but was intercepted by a man brandishing a handgun, police said. Holding the gun to her head, he forced her to walk to the laundry room in the building, where he ordered her to her knees, police said.

Using duct tape, he bound her hands behind her back and took her purse and keys, police said. He then ordered her to walk with him, but, as they left the laundry room, the man spotted other people. He attempted to re-enter the laundry room, but Hume ran away as her captor fired a round of bullets from his 9-millimeter handgun.

Hume pounded on the door of an apartment and, once safely inside, the occupants called the police.

Police are now seeking the suspect, a 5-foot-6 Latino man described as in his early 20s, weighing about 150 pounds with long black hair.