A man and woman are facing charges after police said they held a man hostage in their home and tortured him.
The criminal complaint said Windal Cox and Yolanda Scott held the victim against his will and beat him for ten hours.
The victim escaped by jumping out of a second-story window, the complaint said.
On the night of Dec. 20, 2023, Ashley Eaddy posted a photo of a naked man being taken by police from her Penn Hills street. At the time she thought maybe the man was just drunk. She never imagined that what she witnessed was a victim running for his life.
“When you see somebody come onto your street, you think they are nice. They are saying hi, and you don’t really know what’s going on behind [closed doors],” said Ashley Eaddy, a neighbor who witnessed the naked man.
According to newly released court documents, inside of a home on Mt. Carmel Road in Penn Hills was a torture factory.
Police said the victim was staying with Cox, a childhood friend, for a few days, but on the sixth day, the victim told police things turned sour.