Florida man arrested after blood-covered woman runs out of home, report says

Nathaniel Rodriguez
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested Thursday after a woman ran out of his home while covered in blood, according to police.

NBC affiliate WBBH reported that Thursday morning, residents of a Fort Myers neighborhood spotted a woman running out of a home on Rogers Street.

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According to the witnesses, the blood-covered woman was screaming for help.

“The woman came out of the house, screaming ‘help me, help me,’ and she landed in a neighbor’s yard,” resident Peter Hartmann told WBBH.

The residents said they came to the woman’s rescue, helping her after she fell before an ambulance came to take the woman for treatment.

According to Fort Myers police, the suspect in the case was Glenn Vaters, 58. He was arrested on several charges including kidnapping, aggravated assault with a weapon, and drug possession of a controlled substance.

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