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Blindfolded and Pistol-Whipped: Kidnapping Victim Escapes at Gas Station in Pittsburgh
Dontae Stevens faces multiple charges including kidnapping and aggravated assault after holding a woman at gunpoint for hours and demanding ransom payments, police said.
- On Friday morning, authorities issued an arrest warrant for Dontae Stevens in connection with an alleged Thursday-night kidnapping in Allegheny County where a woman was restrained, blindfolded and pistol-whipped.
- Police say the victim was lured to a Clark Street home under the pretense of a haircut, where Dontae Stevens and an accomplice restrained her, pistol-whipped her and demanded access to cash app and ransom payments.
- At the BP gas station on Ardmore Boulevard in Wilkinsburg, the victim escaped by running to the pickup truck while still blindfolded, and police recovered her Kia in the 1300 block of Maple Way before a hospital evaluation for a possible concussion.
- The warrant lists multiple counts including kidnapping and aggravated assault, and police are searching for Dontae Andre Ra Stevens, of Wilkinsburg.
- The victim told police Stevens is a Pittsburgh rapper she had cut hair for, and the complaint says suspects held her at gunpoint in the basement, calling her significant other and threatening her life.
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Blindfolded and pistol-whipped: Victim escapes kidnappers at gas station in western PA
An arrest warrant was issued for Dontae Stevens, 19, of Pittsburgh, in connection with kidnapping, restraining, blindfolding and pistol-whipping a woman in Allegheny County.
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