A KFC worker helped save a woman who was being held captive by her boyfriend after she left him a note asking for help.
The woman was at the fast food restaurant in the Hickory Hill district of Memphis along with her assailant, Diego Glay, 23, at around 5pm on Monday evening.
The employee called police shortly after and was able to give a description of both the victim and Glay and the pair were soon tracked down.
After a short police chase on foot, Glay was arrested and later charged with kidnapping and evading arrest.
According to Fox 13 News, a report say the victim told police that she and Glay had been in a relationship but that he had been holding her against her will with physical assaults and threats while armed with a handgun.
She said Glay had been physically abusive towards her by punching her in the face when she tried to leave.
She told officers that he took her phone and made sure she didn't leave his sight for days at a time, the affidavit read.
According to officials, Glay said that he and the victim had been living in cheap, random hotels around the city.
He was being held on a $35,000 bond and due to appear in court yesterday. It was not clear whether he had entered a plea.
Last year a woman who was allegedly being held captive by her ex-boyfriend for months, was rescued after leaving SOS notes in two public toilets.
The woman claimed the man had threatened to kill her and her children if she had tried to leave, but managed to leave the notes when they went out together in public.
Her first letter crying for help was found stuck to a mirror in a Walmart supermarket in the women’s toilet in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, WPXI reported.
Staff handed the note to police and he was eventually arrested and charged with sexual assault, strangulation and unlawful restraint.
