Kidnapping Victim Forced To Drive In Police Chase After Wife Pistol-Whipped: PD

HEALDSBURG, CA — A man was kidnapped and his wife was pistol-whipped Sunday in a Healdsburg park, according to police.

Their attackers, 51-year-old Davina Humphrey and 24-year-old Amina Vaden, both of Oakland, were jailed on $1.02 million bail, police said.

The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. at Gibbs Park, where the couple had stopped to use the bathroom and were returning to their vehicle when they saw a woman in need of help, according to police.

As they tried to come to her aid, she took out a handgun and demanded the wife’s belongings and vehicle, police said, adding the wife was hit in the head with the pistol, causing profuse bleeding.

The armed woman was accompanied by two other people, who forced the man into his family’s vehicle at gunpoint and knifepoint and had him drive them away from the scene when they discovered they couldn’t operate the vehicle, according to police.

Authorities put out a countywide alert for the vehicle, which was located by Petaluma police traveling south on Highway 101, officials said. A pursuit followed, which ended when the man ran the vehicle off the road, according to police, who said a juvenile victim was found safe and the two attackers were taken into custody.

Humphrey and Vaden are charged with kidnapping, kidnapping during the commission of a carjacking, robbery, child abuse, elder abuse, assault with a gun, willful discharge of a gun, possession of an undetectable gun, carrying a loaded gun in public and conspiracy, police said.