Chilling moment Houston woman screams with terror while fleeing SUV that chases her across park as police urgently try to find out if she is safe
- Security video shows a young woman screaming in terror while running away from Ford Escape in a Pasadena, Texas, public park on Friday
- Pasadena police shared the video on Twitter on Monday, where it has drawn more than 20,000 views
- Police say they still don’t know what happened to the woman in the video, who was last heard letting out a blood-curdling scream
Terrifying home security video has been released by police in Texas, showing a woman letting out blood-curdling screams while running from an SUV that appears to pursue her across a public park.
The Pasadena Police Department shared the chilling recording on Monday on social media, appealing to the public for help in identifying the woman and the driver of the vehicle chasing her.
According to the time stamp seen in the recording, the incident took place just before 10am on Friday.
Police identified the location as Satsuma Park in Pasadena, Texas, which is a suburb of Houston.
Police in Pasadena, Texas, are trying to track down this woman who was last seen on home security video screaming in terror while running away from an SUV in a public park
A gray SUV that appears to be a Ford Escape is seen in the viral video chasing the fleeing woman in Satsuma Park before 10am on Friday
In the video, which as of Tuesday has been viewed more than 20,000 times on Twitter alone, a young woman, who is believed to be in her late teens or 20s, screams in terror while running away from what appears to be a gray Ford Escape.
As the vehicle drives around the park, the woman glances behind her shoulder several times.
The clip ends with the SUV racing across the lawn towards the woman, who lets out a loud shriek off camera.
‘I can’t get the sound of her screams out of my head,’ the owner of the security camera that captured the chase told kHOU11. ‘It was so horrible. To see her running and screaming … you can tell she’s terrified trying to get away.’
The camera owner, who did not wish to be identified, said she called the police after watching the video on Friday morning.
Pasadena Police Sgt Raul Granados said officers responded to the scene for a report of a disturbance on Friday, but did not learn of the security video until Monday.
The woman runs through the lawn, screaming, with the SUV behind her. The owner of the camera that caught the incident handed over the footage to the police on Monday
The video ends with the SUV speeding across the lawn towards the woman, who lets out a blood-curdling scream off camera
Police want the public’s help in identifying the woman and the driver of this SUV
Three days after the incident, police say they still do not know what happened to the woman in the video, and they are now working to locate her and the driver of the Ford SUV.
‘We want to make sure that she’s OK first and foremost,’ Granados said. ‘We heard the scream at the end. We don’t know if he hit her with a vehicle. We don’t know if she screamed because he stopped and put her in the vehicle.’
Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at 713-475-4822 or Pasadena police’s main number at 713-477-1221.
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