Detroit Teen Escaped Alleged Kidnapper After 10 Days As He Became Spooked By Media Coverage, Police Say

A Detroit man is accused of holding a teen woman hostage for 10 days, arsenic it’s revealed he only released nan insignificant aft he saw societal media posts astir her disappearance, officials person said.

The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office told The Independent that nan scary unfolded betwixt March 3 and 10, pinch nan 14-year-old unfortunate being sexually assaulted aggregate times wrong nan suspect’s home.

The man successful custody, 37-year-old Ronnell Agee, allegedly kept knives adjacent his furniture and threatened to wounded nan girl’s family, Fox 2 reported.

“She couldn’t time off because nan windows were boarded up and location were nary doorknobs connected nan door,” Lisa Coyle from nan prosecutor’s agency told nan station. “The suspect yet fto her time off erstwhile he saw that she was posted arsenic a missing personification connected societal media.”

The teen reportedly near her location connected her ain anterior to gathering Agee. Police person yet to uncover nan events that led to nan woman being taken to his home.

However, investigators person confirmed that nan brace did not cognize each other, according to a Fox 2 reporter.

Agee was precocious released connected enslaved aft he was accused of pointing a weapon astatine his woman and threatening to “blow her caput off” successful a abstracted incident.

The fishy besides has erstwhile convictions and a diagnosed mental illness, though he denied this successful court, according to nan Fox affiliate.

In narration to nan kidnapping, Agee has been charged pinch 4 counts of first-degree criminal intersexual conduct, 1 count of kidnapping and 4 counts of third-degree criminal intersexual conduct.

He has besides been deed pinch 1 count of transportation of a controlled constituent – marijuana to a minor, and 1 count of harboring a runaway.

“You spot these stories successful nan media and momentarily deliberation thankfully this doesn’t hap here,” charismatic Kym Worthy said. “Then reality smacks you successful nan face.

“I americium truthful very saddened by what happened to our young subsister successful this case,” Worthy continued. “And nary uncertainty astir it - she is simply a survivor.”

Commander Rebecca McKay from nan Detroit Police Major Crimes Division, who is starring nan investigation, warned against taking successful teenagers who person tally distant from home, saying that missing children’s cases are examined thoroughly.

“I would pass anybody retired location who decides they want to return successful 1 of these young runaways that we are astir apt going to fig retired who you are,” she told Fox 2.

The Independent has contacted nan Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and nan Detroit Police Department for comment.