DoorDash driver kidnapped, raped in Florida: cops

A DoorDash driver was kidnapped and raped in Florida — by a creep who opened fireplace on her household after they got here to rescue her, police stated.

Joseph Killins, 38, was arrested Saturday in connection to the April 18 horror involving the feminine supply employee in Tampa, according to police.

Killins is accused of holding the motive force, who’s in her 20s, at gunpoint round 11 p.m. and making her drive to an condominium on the Belara Lakes Condo complicated, the place he allegedly raped her, cops stated.

Whereas she was on the condominium, the sufferer’s household checked her cellphone location — and rushed to assist. It’s unclear how the kin knew she was in bother.

“The sufferer’s household, who had been monitoring her telephone, arrived and rescued her from the automobile. Killins responded by firing a number of instances,” police stated.

One of many pictures fired hit a member of the family of the sufferer’s girlfriend, a girl in her 20s.

After firing a number of rounds, Killins fled the scene.

The following day, Killins threw a girl in her early 40s to the bottom on the identical condominium complicated, punching her within the face earlier than stealing her backpack, in accordance with police.

He was final seen working away towards the Haven Waters Edge Condo complicated.

Detectives assigned to the 2 instances collaborated and had been ultimately led to Killins, police stated within the launch.

He was situated by authorities on the Tampa Inn lodge on Friday night time and arrested.

Killins faces costs of armed kidnapping, theft with a firearm, armed sexual battery and aggravated battery with a weapon, in addition to a cost of theft in connection to the April 19 assault.

He’s being held on the Orient Street Jail.