Anish Vij
A Louisville woman - who was screaming for help - was found by police chained and locked up inside a barricaded home.
Firefighters and Louisville Metro Police managed to smash open the doors to find a helpless Jonna Wilson, 37, inside a bolted up home off Dixie Highway on August 16.
LMPD responded to calls from neighbors about a woman screaming for help at the home on Bolling Avenue around 7pm, reports WDRB.
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Police said that the front door of the Kentucky home was barricaded.
Wilson went into the home when the suspect allegedly asked her to clean the house in return for some money.
Moises May, 36, has since been charged with kidnapping, two counts of assault and terroristic threatening.
Wilson says she shares a daughter with the suspect.
"The neighbors right here, they called 911 and they came and got me," Wilson told the outlet.
"If not, he would have killed me. I said, 'This is my only time, if I didn't get free now, I'll be dead.'
"He made me strip naked, he put the chain around my neck, he called his friend and said, 'I've got to take this equipment back to Lowe's. When I come back, I'm going to kill you.'
"I only had a few minutes to get out."
Wilson - who was locked up for five hours - explained: "Every door was screwed shut. The fire department couldn't even knock down the doors, that's how bad it was screwed, every window was bolted, every exit, there is no exit in the house."
"He has a key to get inside and outside," Wilson added. "You have to have a key to get out, as soon as I seen him lock the door, I knew I wasn't going to get out.
"He said, 'You want to do this the hard way or do this the easy way?' I said, 'I want to do this the easy way,' so I let him put the chain around my neck and he started choking me with it."
"She can come here to get a shower, she can put on clean clothes that we'll get her, she can have a hot meal Monday, Wednesday, Friday," Amy Leenerts, founder of Free2Hope, said. "We'll be there for her, just like we are for all the women in this community."
Free2Hope are collecting donations for Wilson and aim to help any victims of domestic violence or human trafficking.
LMPD said the case is 'open and active'.
UNILAD has contacted LMPD for additional comment.