KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A woman says a man, armed with a gun, pulled her inside a home, raped her and shot her three times. She said she thought she was going to die.
She told police that she was sexually assaulted and shot a week ago. She told FOX 4’s Robert Townsend in an exclusive interview that she’s still living through a nightmare.
“I can still see his face. I don’t feel like myself. I have to put on makeup just to cover up the scars,” the victim said.
The victim told FOX 4 the attacker followed her, jumped out of a car to grab her and then raped her at a relative’s home where she was staying.
“I did not realize that anybody was behind me,” the woman said. “I didn’t know he was following me until I got there, until I got out the car and pulled into the garage, and that’s when somebody came up behind me and had me at gunpoint.”
She said the stranger kicked her down the basement stairs and pulled her into a laundry room.
“Pointed the gun right there and making it visible to him, to me, that he has a gun and that basically we were going to have sex,” the woman said.
The scared woman repeatedly screamed.
“I was very loud. He kept telling me, ‘Shut up, shut up. Stop yelling, stop screaming,’” the woman said.
She even fought the attacker.
“I was fighting for my life. He just kept telling me, ‘Calm down, calm down. I’m not gonna kill you,’” she said.
Within moments she said the man punched her in the back of her head, knocked her unconscious and sexually assaulted her.
“I remember passing out from the blow of the head, and when I woke up what had been done had already been done, the sexual assault,” she said. “I can still see his face; to me he’s a monster.”
She says he then shot her, twice in the back of her head and once in the shoulder, before quickly driving off. After the attack, the crying, bleeding, traumatized woman ran to a neighbor’s house for help.
“I believe that it was a miracle that I survived,” she said.
The woman says she’s still in a lot of pain and that’s why she will likely go back to the hospital.
Police believe the suspect in this case also robbed a KCK woman. Police say a 23-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint at her home on Eaton Street. They say the suspect ran away on foot after taking her backpack. Police say the suspect is a black man in his 40s with a slight build and long dreadlocks pulled back in a ponytail.
The woman Robert Townsend spoke with says police tell her a suspect may be in custody, but authorities are not confirming an arrest. If you know more about either case, call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS.