‘He’s watching, looking, waiting for a victim’: Marietta police charge man after attempt to kidnap woman from grocery store parking lot

‘He’s watching, looking, waiting for a victim’: Marietta police charge man after attempt to kidnap woman from grocery store parking lot
Marietta police have charged a 34-year-old ex-con with kidnapping a woman at gunpoint from a Kroger Store parking lot. — Pixabay/fsHH
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Marietta police have charged a 34-year-old ex-con with kidnapping a woman at gunpoint from a Kroger Store parking lot, a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta said.

According to police, 34-year-old Randy Harmon allegedly forced the woman at gunpoint into the passenger seat of her own vehicle at the Kroger Store on Powers Ferry Road, jumped behind the wheel, and sped off.

“He’s watching, looking, waiting for a victim,” Marietta Police Officer Chuck McPhilamy told FOX 5 Atlanta.

Investigators say the woman tried to fight off her attacker before opening the door of the moving vehicle and jumping out of the speeding car, which police later recovered miles away where it had been abandoned with all its valuables still inside, the report states. 

The fact that nothing was stolen from the car, police said, indicates that she was the intended target.

Harmon is now facing more than a half-dozen charges, with investigators insisting it took teamwork between Marietta and Cobb County Police and the use of license plate readers to help apprehend and end his one-man crime wave so quickly.



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