Alleged Kidnapper of Jewelry Store Employee Indicted

The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern Pennsylvania District has announced the filing of two federal charges against a Philadelphia man allegedly involved with the kidnapping and beating of a jewelry store employee.

Khayree Gay, 31, of Olney, has been indicted for the April 4 robbery and kidnapping of an employee of National Watch and Diamond Exchange, located on Jewelers Row on South Street in Philadelphia.

According to reports, three men abducted the woman on April 4 and forced her into a van, where they beat and tasered her several times to force the revelation of codes for the store’s alarms and safe.

When told she did not have them, the men drove to an ATM and forced her to retrieve money from her bank account, according to police.

The suspects left the victim at a cemetery in Darby, where she was discovered and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment for a concussion.

Gay was found by investigators at a hotel room in South Carolina approximately a week after the alleged attack. The other two suspects have not been identified.