Woman shot while escaping her abductor speaks out: ‘(He) put a gun to my head'

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — A New Kensington woman who was shot while escaping a man who abducted her last month is speaking out for the first time.

The woman, who asked to remain unidentified, said she was coming out of her home on May 31 to go to work when she found a man near her garage.

"I walked in, and he was standing here at my garage all in black,” she said. “He took two steps towards me and put a gun to my head and I was terrified.”

She said the man told her to get into her car and to drive him.

“I kept my composure, and I didn’t outwardly panic,” she told Channel 11 News. “He’s giving me directions where to go, which I followed. The car stopped, and I thought, ‘Go,’ and I got out and ran.”

The man shot at her, hitting her once in the arm. She had to get stitches in her arm as a result of the gunshot wound.

Last week, though, she said she got a call from a detective, who said the man suspected of abducting and shooting her was in custody for another crime.

“The murder charge is what he was arrested for, according to detectives,” she said. “They had indicated it was the same weapon.”

A source told Channel 11’s Catherine Varnum that the suspect is Daquane Faulk. While he hasn’t been charged in the New Kensington woman’s abduction and shooting, Faulk is charged with murder in the death of Todd Rogers, who died earlier this month.

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The source also said the weapon connected to Faulk and Rogers’ death is being looked at in a total of three crimes that occurred between May 28 and June 5.

While charges haven’t been filed in the other two cases, the New Kensington woman said she’s grateful to even be able to tell her story.

“In my head, it would’ve ended differently,” she said.

Calls and emails to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office for comment on the cases were not immediately returned.

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