Lachelle Jordan isn’t what you would call a typical kidnap victim. The 30-year-old EMT was already nervous because she had both a stalker and an upcoming court appearance. She was expected to testify in a rape case but didn’t make it to the witness stand. Late Thursday evening she was forced to fight for her life. She won, escaping her captors to the safety of a Cleveland bodega. She “limped” into the store “after escaping kidnappers who tried to burn her alive.” The clerk was nice enough to let her call 911 on the store phone.
Victim escapes horrific death
In her work as a paramedic in Cleveland, Ohio, Lachelle Jordan is used to helping one victim after another fight for their lives. After treating one such person for rape injuries, she was called to court for her expert testimony on what she had seen and done.
Someone didn’t want her to take the stand. She’s been reported missing and the search was ongoing but police didn’t have a clue.
New York Post reports that Jordan “was found alive around 11 p.m.”
All I know is that Lachelle Jordan was seen on surveillance footage limping into this convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio around 11pm last night. She looks as if she came back from the dead. She had been missing for almost a week. pic.twitter.com/r9f9wbJeRX
— Rose (@901Lulu) May 12, 2023
As soon as they got the call, her fellow paramedics rushed her “to the Cleveland Clinic for medical treatment.” Surveillance footage from the Open Pantry convenience store showed the “tattered and barefooted” victim limping slowly into the Collinwood neighborhood establishment.
Obviously exhausted from her ordeal, the “mother of two walks up to the store counter and slaps both hands on the plexiglass barrier before reportedly telling the worker kidnappers had tried to kill her.”
When the victim asked for a phone, she promptly called 911 for help. The cops almost choked on their donuts. “You will never believe it. We got a call from Lachelle Jordan,” a dispatcher told responding police.
Burn her alive
As the dispatcher informed responding units, she “said she got away from people that kidnapped her. They tried to burn her alive.” That wasn’t nice. According to the clerk, Ms. Jordan certainly looked like a victim when she came in.
She “looked nervous, very tired, and like someone [fought] with her.” Not only that, “her shirt was ripped and looked as though it had been burned.” By then, she’d been missing for a full five days.
On Saturday, May 6, which was two days before her expected testimony, the “EMT vanished after she went outside to get something from her car that was parked on the street.” She was expected to testify on behalf of a rape victim and the accused was the same man she reported to police as stalking her. The defendant, Michael Stennett, is described as “a longtime youth baseball coach charged with two counts of rape and one count of abduction in May 2022.”
They did not take Lachelle Jordan seriously when she was afraid for her life. Michael Stennett often followed her in his vehicle while she was on duty as an EMS worker. He often sat outside of her home. She even filed a protective order against him for stalking. Well that sure… pic.twitter.com/wrknFVWnAR
— Rose (@901Lulu) May 12, 2023
There will be more charges for what he did and tried to do to Ms. Jordan. Specifically, “one felony count of menacing by stalking and one felony count of violating a protection order while committing a felony.” He’s being held on $100,000 bond.
Long before she became a not-so-helpless victim, Jordan “had reported the 65-year-old for stalking her on at least three different occasions, including two days before she disappeared. She also claimed a female friend of Stennett’s had stalked her and tried to run her off the road.”
After five days, police still couldn’t connect that information to her whereabouts. The morning of the day she went missing, “Jordan’s twin sister Rachelle, who had been staying with her, said a window in the home was shot through at about 6 a.m.“
