Morning Note

A pair of Venezuelan nationals allegedly tortured a 58-year-old woman before shooting and leaving her for dead on the side of the road.

Kevin Daniel Sanabria Ojeda, 24, and Alexander Moises Arnaez-Gutierrez, 25, kidnapped a Washington woman outside her Burien apartment on Jan. 28 and tortured her with a power drill to gain access to her bank accounts, according to authorities. 

“The suspects then forced [the victim] to provide the PIN for her credit cards/banks cards by drilling into her right hand with a power drill,” police reportedly said. “They then threatened her by telling her they were going to kill her, kill her family, feed her to the bears and dump her body far away.”

The pair decided to kill the victim as they drove along Interstate 90, according to authorities. After they pulled over and threw the woman over a wall, one of the men shot her in the shoulder. However, the victim played dead for 15 minutes and then climbed back over the wall to seek help from passing drivers. 

The suspects later returned to her apartment, stealing her car, purse, and $20,000 worth of jewelry and gold. 

Authorities charged each of them with attempted murder, kidnapping, and robbery. According to the King County Sheriff’s Office, one of the suspects may have ties to Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang. 

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