Two men face kidnapping charges after an attack on a woman in a Mall of America parking ramp, one of whom is also a suspect in a shooting at the Lake Street light-rail station in early May.
One of the men was the woman's ex-boyfriend, and police say he forced her into the backseat of a car, beating her and threatening to shoot her and her friends, as the other man drove the car away.
According to the complaint filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court:
A man police later identified as Trevon Depriest Johnson, 23, of Golden Valley was repeatedly calling his former girlfriend on Monday when she told him to leave her alone and mentioned she was going to the Mall of America. Johnson and another man drove to the mall, and Johnson approached the woman and her friends as they got off a bus.
Johnson grabbed the woman by the neck, police said in the complaint, demanding the woman come with him or he would hit her.
Johnson pulled the woman up a set of escalators from the Metro Transit station and into one of the parking ramps. The woman's friends lost sight of them and called police.
In the parking ramp, the friends heard the woman screaming from inside an SUV and saw Johnson punching her in the back seat.
When they tried to get into the car to help her, they said Johnson pointed a gun at them and threatened to shoot.
