LAPLACE -- A 32-year-old LaPlace woman was allegedly surprised by a man in the back seat of her car after leaving PJ's Coffee on West Airline Highway on Monday morning.
The St. John Parish Sheriff's Office was contacted by the woman alleging she had been taken at gunpoint to a Wal-Mart in Baton Rouge from LaPlace.
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The man allegedly gave her orders to go to Baton Rouge and advised her that he needed to get out of LaPlace, because he had just killed someone.”
The Sheriff's Office spokesman said the office was not aware of any such murder
Maj. Mike Tregre with the St. John Parish Sheriff's Office said the woman had left her car unlocked when she went into the coffee shop.
The incident report stated the victim claimed the man told her that he had no intentions to hurt her.
The subject stayed behind the front seat of the vehicle, and could be heard talking on a cell phone to another man telling him to pick him up a the Wal-Mart in Baton Rouge on US 61, according to the incident report
The victim said she drove the man to a Wal-Mart in Baton Rouge and, she continued, the man got out of her car, and into a “red or burgundy colored, older model Ford Explorer.”
After dropping the man off, the victim went to the nearest business to call 911 for help, then returned to LaPlace.
The man was described wearing a black jacket, a white cloth cap with red markings on it. The victim said he probably weighed around 170 pounds, unshaven with blonde hair with a ring in his bottom lip.
She also stated that the man was wearing black gloves with plastic wrapped around the fingers.
St. John Parish Sheriff's Office asked that anyone with information should call 985-652-6338.
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