Kentucky Woman Escapes Attempted Kidnapping After Burgler Breaks Into Home

A Louisville woman has a handful of bumps and bruises after she fought off a man who broke into her house while she was sleeping.

The man entered the woman's house in the 100 block of E. Ormsby Avenue early on Sunday morning through a side window.

"I'm waking up to this silhouette, and all of a sudden, this silhouette moves. And I'm saying, 'What are you doing in my house?'" the woman told WDRB. The woman is remaining anonymous for now since the burglar is still on the loose. She did share her story with Kentucky news outlets.

The man was initially rummaging through the woman's house looking for the keys to her BMW.

"And he’s saying, ‘where are the keys to your car, where are the keys to your car?’” she said.

She told him she didn't have a car. He called her a liar, grabbed her, and forced her to walk to the garage. She said the man intended on stealing her car and kidnapping her.

“I was in the yard and I started screaming. Of course, nobody hears me. Then he put his hand, and said ‘stop screaming, you’re going to come with me,'" she told WAVE.

The man let go of her because he needed both hands to open the garage door. That's when the woman ran to a neighbor's house for help.

911 was called, but the burglar took off before cops arrived.

The woman is shaken, but her neighbors stepped up and installed a security system at her house.

Louisville authorities are looking for the crook, who is described as a man around 5'7" with a slight build and was wearing dark clothes at the time.

The burglar only made off with a few gift cards found in the woman's house. Her BMW is still safe.

"I have a 2008 BMW that I've taken care of that's only got 55,000 miles on it," she said. "It's in perfect condition, and I'm not going to have some punk drive my car off."