CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In an exclusive interview, the woman who was kidnapped from the Arboretum Shopping Center shared her story with NBC Charlotte.
Cameron Downing-Brown said an armed man forced her into her own car then drove across state lines. The 30-year-old said she was able to make up a story that got him to let her go.
"I'm not pregnant, but I lied," she said.
It started around 3:30 p.m. on Friday. Downing-Brown said she just had lunch with her mother and grandmother.
"It was raining, so I didn't want my grandma to have to walk through the parking lot," she said.
Downing-Brown went to get her SUV to pick up her grandmother when the armed suspect approached.
"As I was getting in the car, someone came up with a gun, and said, 'Slide over in the passenger seat,'" she said.