SAGINAW TWP, MI — A Saginaw Township bank branch employee repeatedly expressed her fears of working alone to her supervisors. Then, as she was closing one Friday evening, a probation absconder walked in.

She spent the next several hours held hostage, during which she was beaten, robbed, and sexually assaulted, police documents show. As her attorney put, she “endured one of the most harrowing ordeals imaginable…with the walls of her workplace becoming the confines of a nightmare.”

The nightmare ended when a Michigan State Police sniper shot the hostage-taker as he was focused on a Faygo Red Pop bottle dangling from a police drone.

MLive is not naming the woman because it does not typically identify victims of sexual assault. She has not filed a lawsuit in connection to the incident.

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