Two female suspects from Oakland are in custody following an alleged assault, robbery, and carjacking on Sunday evening at a Healdsburg park in which they allegedly kidnapped a husband and forced him to drive them home after assaulting his wife.
The incident unfolded at Byron Gibbs Park, located at 1520 Prentice Drive in Healdsburg, on Sunday. According to Healdsburg police, around 5:27 pm, the two victims, a husband and wife, had stopped at the park to use the restroom. On their way back to their car, they saw a woman nearby who needed help — and who may have been faking some kind of injury? They stopped to help her, and the suspect allegedly produced a handgun and demanded the woman’s belongings and their car.
The female victim was allegedly struck in the head with the handgun during the altercation, and the suspect, along with “two additional individuals,” then allegedly took the couple’s car keys and went to steal their car. Finding that they couldn’t operate the car themselves, they then confronted the husband and forced him at gunpoint and knifepoint into the car, instructing him to drive them away…