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A woman says she was parked at a Penticton gas station when a stranger tapped on the window of her vehicle with a weapon and demanded she get out.
Meredith Schuurman tells Castanet the scary incident unfolded just after 7 a.m. Sunday at the Shell Gas Station off Fairview Road.
“Someone came up to my driver side door and tapped on the glass with metal, I looked up and this guy had a sawed-off shotgun and was like ‘get out of the car!’” she recalls.
A gold coloured PT Cruiser was blocking her vehicle from moving and she says the stranger grabbed her door handle.
“He came in between me and the car door and said ‘get out of the car!’ and I just started saying ‘no, no, no’ and I started screaming as loud as I could ‘help me, help me, help me!’,” she says.
The man then left and fled the area in his PT Cruiser.
"Most terrifying moment of my life literally staring down the barrel of a sawed off shot gun," she said.
Penticton RCMP launched a manhunt just after 7 a.m. using an RCMP helicopter and a spike belt to try and stop the suspects.
RCMP Sgt. Carmen Penney said police located the suspect vehicle travelling on Highway 97 northbound but they evaded police.
Police were able to stop the vehicle in Summerland on Lakeshore Road and arrest both the man and woman.
“There was nothing indicating that they were trying to take my car… I am pretty sure they were trying to take me,” said Schuurman.
She says she is incredibly lucky to be safe and is celebrating being alive.
