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Duct Taped To Chair, Mom Hops For Help

Posted: 4:43 pm EDT June 11, 2008Updated: 1:09 pm EDT June 12, 2008

Police are investigating a home invasion in which a woman was taped and handcuffed to a chair in her upscale Decatur home. The woman was able to escape in the chair and flag down a motorist for help. Now police are looking for her attackers.

Police said they were called to a home on Laurelgate Drive off Lavista Road Wednesday just after 3 p.m.

Authorities said they are still gathering information but it appears that two men were in a woman's garage when she arrived home with her three children. The men taped and handcuffed the woman to a kitchen chair, put her in the basement and made her call her husband and tell him to come home, according to officials. The woman's husband was tied up when he arrived home.

The woman was able to somehow escape. Witnesses told WSB-TV Channel 2 the woman hopped away from the home with the chair still attached. A motorist stopped to help her and called 911.

"There was this lady in a chair, just bound. And the first vehicle was trying to get around her and then I pulled over. She said, 'Please help me call 911. My kids are in the house and we're being robbed. My husband's in there.' At that point, I pulled over and tried to get her out of the street," said Keith Daniels.

When officers arrived at the home the suspects had already left in the woman’s green van. The woman's family was checked out by emergency personnel and they are expected to be OK.

Authorities said it does not appear to be random and that they believe the suspects somehow knew the family. Police believe robbery was the motive.

Police are currently looking for the vehicle.

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