Hyde Park woman beaten and kidnapped by home invaders
Good Samaritan spotted victim, called 911
Four home invaders broke into a Hyde Park home and robbed, pistolwhipped and kidnapped a terrified woman, she told police and a woman who found her on a dark city street before dawn yesterday.
“As soon as she told me what happened I tried to calm her down and I let her sit in my car,” good Samaritan Karen Seck told the Herald hours after the attack. “She was extremely worked up. She was beside herself. I can’t even imagine. She just kept saying, ‘Oh my God, oh my God!’ and, ‘They left me off here to die.’”
The woman told police four men broke in through a window and held her at gunpoint while ransacking the Beaver Street property, which is bordered by a vacant house on one side and a long stretch of woods on the other. The 59-year-old woman said she was then forced to go with two of her captors in her own car to an ATM, where she was robbed of cash. Seck, 50, was heading to the gym about 4:30 a.m. when she saw the woman frantically waving her arms in the middle of Harvard Street outside New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan.
“Her right cheek was extremely swollen,” Seck said, adding the woman was complaining of pain to the back of her head. “She said they hit her in the face with a gun. She didn’t recognize any of them.”
Seck called 911 and stayed with the woman until help arrived. A police officer was posted at the woman’s house for her protection yesterday.
Police have issued a bulletin to be on the lookout for the woman’s blue Kia Soul with Massachusetts registration 3VH745.
When the woman last saw the vehicle it was following a white Honda containing the other two suspects, she told police. The Honda was emitting visible exhaust, police said.
“You can sink to all levels of lowness,” neighbor Paul Lombardi said. “That’s low. I mean, she could have died, right?”