MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A man accused of kidnapping a woman and her one-year-old child from a parking lot in Horn Lake, Mississippi, Wednesday morning was arrested in Tupelo.
The victims were found safe in Memphis.
Thursday, Izaya Kutschinski was charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count o
f Simple Domestic Assault.
Horn Lake Police said just before noon Wednesday, officers responded to a call about a disturbance between a man and woman at Fortuna Grocery on Highway 51.
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Police said that witnesses told officers that the female attempted to escape from a white Lexus when a Kutschinski physically restrained her.
Officers obtained video confirming that a woman was being held against her will by Kutschinski, who prevented her from escaping multiple times.
According to police, the woman could be heard by witnesses screaming for help before he threw her into the vehicle, drove off, and headed north towards Memphis.
Police determined that the woman’s one-year-old child was in the vehicle with them at the time of the kidnapping.
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The Horn Lake Police Department said they identified the vehicle and observed the Lexus headed east on Highway 28 on I-22. HLPD reached out to several agencies in an attempt to locate the suspect.
Tupelo Police located the white Lexus and tried to stop the vehicle. Kutschinski attempted to flee, but police took him into custody without incident.
Kutschinski was extradited to Horn Lake and is being held in the DeSoto County Jail. ...read more read less
