- Police are investigating the horrific events as a possible kidnapping incident.
- They are now asking the community to help identify the people in the video.
This is the horrifying moment a bearded man was seen grabbing a woman as she screamed for help before putting her into a car in an apparent kidnapping in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Terrifying video captured by a home security camera is helping police piece together the “possible kidnapping” in suburban Portland as they ask the community to help identify the victim and the suspect still at large.
The shocking footage shows the woman ringing the doorbell of a stranger’s home near Southeast 32nd Avenue and E. Main Street as a man attacks her from behind.
She can be heard shouting ‘please help me! Please help!’
The suspect then appears to drag the woman back into a white van before joining traffic and driving away into the night.
The woman is seen running to a stranger’s house and ringing the doorbell on Sunday.
A man attacks her from behind and grabs her as she screams “please help me.”
Police say the woman was at the residence around 10:45 p.m. on Sunday, April 21, when the horror unfolded.
They say the video appears to show the woman “screaming for help before the man in the photo above picked her up and carried her away.”
Hillsboro Police are actively investigating the events as a “possible kidnapping incident” and are urging those who can help identify the people in the video to get in touch.
The neighbors of the house with the doorbell camera told KGW News They were “traumatized.”
Marisol, who did not share her full name, told the outlet that she did not recognize any of the people in the video and contacted 911 immediately after receiving a video alert.
Marisol said she hasn’t stopped thinking about the woman’s scream and described the horror she witnessed.
“The way he’s holding on to the door in the video, if you see it, it’s not normal.”
‘I just want them to find her. I just want to know she’s safe,” she said.
Police did not share any identifying characteristics of either party in the grainy black-and-white video.
You can see the woman with glasses. She has long hair and a light colored suit.
In a still image, the suspect appears to have a short beard and short dark hair.
She is wearing a light blouse and dark pants.
Police are treating the incident, captured on the home’s surveillance camera, as a possible kidnapping.
The suspect appears to carry the woman back to a white van before driving away.
Anyone with information about this incident or the identities of the people in the video is asked to contact Hillsboro Police at 503-629-0111 or 911. Case number 53-2024-7882.
DailyMail.com has contacted Hillsboro police for comment.
An Amber Alert remains in Oregon following the separate disappearance of Roman Huizar, who disappeared on April 21 from West Richland, WA.
The West Richland Police Department issued the alert believing that one-year-old Roman was kidnapped by 39-year-old Elias Huizar on Monday night.
Huizar is also suspected of shooting his ex-wife to death outside an elementary school in West Richland.