Woman Escapes Assailant Who Kidnapped Her In Marietta: Report

MARIETTA, GA — A 27-year-old man is behind bars in the Cobb County jail on charges that he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman over the weekend, and then crashed a stolen van into another vehicle while trying to escape from police, according to a media report. Marietta police said that Andrew Head, the suspect, abducted the victim overnight Sunday, WSB-TV Channel 2 reported.

The woman escaped on Sunday morning when she told a clerk at a Texaco gas station on South Marietta Parkway that she had been kidnapped, WSB-TV reported. The clerk then called the police.

Before police arrived, Head sped away in the woman's van, driving into oncoming traffic in trying to elude officers and striking another vehicle head-on, according to a police spokesman.

The woman, Head and the other driver were taken to a local hospital for treatment, WSB-TV reported. Head is being held without bond on three counts of rape.

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