The woman said the encounter lasted five minutes and that the suspect has since stolen thousands of dollars from her accounts.
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman says she’s thankful to be alive after a man randomly got into her car, held her at knifepoint and robbed her recently.
Jessica said she was sitting in her car in a parking lot between McDonald’s and Pizza Hut on Michigan Road at 86th Street when a strange man opened her door and got in.
Jessica asked us not to use her last name or show her face, out of fear for her safety.
“The car was running and the man got in my car and told me he wanted me to give him a thousand dollars and take him somewhere,” Jessica recounted. “I immediately turned off my car and told him no.”
She said that’s when he pulled a box knife and threatened her.
“He just kept saying ‘I’m …