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Watch: Dramatic moment as girl jumps out of car to escape after being abducted

Associated Press Friday, 9 October 2015, 07:57 Last update: about 10 years ago

Bridgeport police said they have identified a suspect and found the car a 17-year-old girl bailed out of in Bridgeport, Connecticut after a woman allegedly lured her into it and assaulted her.

Police released video surveillance on Wednesday that shows what appears to be the teenage girl open the door of a moving four-door sedan and tumble out of it.  On Thursday morning, police said they might be getting closer to arresting a suspect and now say they found the car from the video. It was in New Haven. 

Police said they have also identified the suspect and an arrest is imminent.

Bridgeport police said they responded to the corner of Boston and Palisade avenues in Bridgeport at 7:15 a.m. on Monday to investigate reports of an attempted abduction and found the teenage girl. 

She was not hurt and told police she was walking to school on Boston Avenue when a charcoal gray Toyota Yaris approached her and the driver lured her into the car and then attacked her police said.

The video shows the driver make a U-turn, double back on the opposite side of the road and keep going.

The victim "bailed out" of the car as it was headed west on Boston Avenue, police said, and the driver made a U-turn at Dover Street and then drove east on Boston Avenue and into Stratford, police said.

 

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