Editor's Note: The video above is from KXAN's newscast on Oct. 31, 2025.

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A woman was found handcuffed to exercise equipment outside a Texas home where she said she'd been held for months, local authorities said.

The woman told police she had been shot with a "BB gun" multiple times, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NewsNation affiliate KXAN.

On Oct. 30, the Austin Police Department responded to a "check welfare urgent" call after a 911 caller told dispatch that a woman was "handcuffed to a workout apparatus stuck in the gate entrance of a fence," according to the affidavit. The woman was heard "screaming for help."

The woman told police she "had been handcuffed for months, inside and outside of the house and was repeatedly shot with a BB gun b

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