SEATTLE, WA – Two men in Washington state have been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and robbery after a woman narrowly survived a harrowing ordeal by feigning death during an alleged attack. Kevin Daniel Sanabria Ojeda, 24, and Alexander Moises Arnaez-Gutierrez, 25, appeared in King County Superior Court, where prosecutors emphasized the premeditated nature of the crime.
According to court documents, the incident began on Jan. 21 in Burien, a suburb of Seattle. The victim reportedly had been targeted by the suspects for several months, with the men waiting at her apartment complex on the night in question.
The King County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a gunshot after a neighbor heard a woman’s scream. Upon arriving, deputies could not locate the victim, who had not been answering her phone. Soon after, officers learned she was discovered by a passerby on the side of a highway nearly 60 miles away, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Investigators detailed how the victim’s night unfolded: after a day at work and an evening visiting a friend, she returned home to find two men she did not recognize in the parking lot. As she approached her apartment, one of the men, allegedly armed, confronted her. According to prosecutors, he revealed knowledge of her home life and when she would arrive, indicating they had been waiting for several hours.
The situation quickly escalated as one suspect fired at her and missed. They then forced the woman into their car, threatening her and demanding her purse, which held jewelry valued at $20,000. They drove her to an ATM, withdrawing a small sum before discussing their plan to eliminate her.
The affidavit reports that after parking along the highway, one suspect shot the victim in the shoulder, after which she pretended to be dead. She later scaled the highway’s retaining wall to find help from passing drivers.
Law enforcement tracked her vehicle, which was stolen by the suspects, to Oregon. The investigation led them to Lake Oswego, where Ojeda was identified at a location linked through his phone records.
Ojeda was eventually arrested in Illinois with the involvement of the FBI, and authorities recovered the victim’s stolen items in his possession. Meanwhile, Arnaez-Gutierrez was apprehended in Washington, reportedly connected to the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua.
Both men are detained on a $1 million bond, with their next court hearings scheduled for later this month.