A 73-calendar year-outdated superior-close serious estate agent kidnapped a pair on a Colorado hiking trail and place a nylon leash on the girl, whom he experienced a history of harassing, authorities say.
Kerry Endsley, who has marketed upscale homes in Denver’s suburbs for Sotheby’s and Compass, is now going through costs of kidnapping, menacing and violating a restraining buy in Friday’s assault on a path in close proximity to a golf study course in Lakewood, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
A further man known as 911 to report seeing two hikers being held at gunpoint by an assailant later on determined as Endsley, who experienced confronted the spouse and spouse immediately after kneeling down and pretending to tie his shoe, deputies claimed.
“As they walked [past] him, he confronted them with a handgun,” sheriff officers claimed in a assertion. “The suspect purchased the feminine to the floor and set a nylon leash close to her neck.”
Endsley, who experienced disguised himself, had a background of harassing the female. She experienced earlier acquired a restraining get towards the genuine-estate agent, deputies mentioned.
The suspect allegedly purchased the husband and spouse to “come with him,” but the spouse managed to wrestle absent a gun, authorities explained.
The couple then ran off and met responding deputies, who confronted Endsley at gunpoint. He then pulled a stun gun from his waistband and took intention at cops, who fired but missed the authentic-estate agent.
A second deputy then fired his Taser at Endsley, who was taken to a medical center after complaining of accidents from the stun gun, deputies claimed.
The kidnapped few were being not harm.
Endsley stays held on $500,000 bond at the Jefferson County Jail. He has a court docket day set for Friday, data display. It’s unclear if he he’s hired a law firm who could comment on his behalf.
Endsley was on probation right after pleading guilty to harassment about an incident in September 2021, KUSA reported.
The true-estate agent was striving to get the woman in Friday’s attack to “drop charges” from one particular of his relatives, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office environment spokeswoman instructed the Every day Mail.
The spokeswoman declined to establish the relative or if the situation experienced been settled but stated the victim however has a restraining get prohibiting Endsley from making contact with her.
Endsley’s Compass actual-estate profile was no lengthier lively Tuesday, while Sotheby’s in Denver verified he had worked there but refused to explore his arrest, in accordance to the Day-to-day Mail.