Body Cam Video: Police in Kentucky Rescue Woman Chained to Floor After Neighbors Hear Her Screams for Help
Kentucky woman was chained to bedroom floor, but screamed for help after breaking out bedroom window.
Aug. 23 2023, Published 2:03 p.m. ET
Police in Kentucky climbed a ladder to free a woman who had been chained to the floor after neighbors called 911 when they heard her screaming for help, video shows.
On Aug. 16, officers arrived at the home and found the windows and doors on the first floor of the home were barricaded, according to body camera footage released by the Louisville Metro Police Department.
The victim was found sobbing in the bedroom while chained to the floor.
After borrowing a ladder from one of the neighbors, police climbed up to the second floor to a window that was smashed out and found a woman sobbing with a chain around her neck. The chain was bolted to the floor.
Officers used a hatchet to break the restraints from the floor and brought the woman downstairs. Firefighters then removed the chain from her neck using bolt cutters.
Officers used a hatchet to break the chain from the floor and get the victim out of the house.
On Aug. 18, Moises May, 36, was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the woman, later identified as Jonna Wilson, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Court documents state that May and Wilson were arguing several days earlier when May reportedly grabbed Wilson, held her to the bathroom floor and then “used a machete to cut off a majority of her hair.”
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Firefighters used dead blot cutters to get the chain off the victim's neck.
May then allegedly “slapped the victim around” before Wilson was able to flee the home, the Courier-Journal reported.
Wilson returned to the house later on to grab some of her belongings, which is when May reportedly threatened to kill her.
He's accused of then wrapping the chain around her neck, attaching it to the floor, and taking her cell phone so she couldn’t call for help, the Courier-Journal reported.
According to WAVE, May reportedly told Wilson, “You’re gonna get it tonight,” before he left with her phone as well as the key to the lock on the chain. The station reported he allegedly added, “I told you the next time you leave and don’t come home, I’d kill you.”
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Moises May was arrested after police discovered he allegedly held the woman captive in his home.
Wilson was able to break the upstairs window and started screaming for help, officials said.
May was charged with multiple counts, including kidnapping, intimidating a participant in a legal process, wanton endangerment, assault, terroristic threatening, and harassment, authorities said.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was being held on a $100,000 bond.
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