WARREN Woman says she shot her abductor

Detectives were interviewing the woman this morning.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
KINSMAN -- Authorities say a 37-year-old woman told them early today she killed one of the men who had kidnapped her Monday night in Warren.
She said she was abducted by two men while she was walking along Olive Street Northeast, officials said.
Lisa Cogar, of Woodland Avenue, Warren, told a dispatcher in a call to the Trumbull County 911 Center around 4 a.m. that she shot the man once in the back with his shotgun in a wooded area in Kinsman.
When asked by the dispatcher how close she was to the man when she shot him, she replied, "Very close."
The information is contained in an audiotape of the call. The woman said she did not know the name of the man she shot.
Cogar has not been charged.
The body of a white man in his mid-20s was found by deputy sheriffs in the woods, about a quarter-mile off state Route 87.
"We are not sure who he is yet -- not 100 percent sure," Sheriff Thomas Altiere said, adding investigators were combing the scene this morning.
Deputies were also hoping to search the man's house, officials said.
Cogar said she was walking on Olive Street, off Atlantic Avenue, on Monday evening when two men forced her at knife point into a maroon, four-door car.
Cogar said she does not know the men.
What she reported
She told the 911 dispatcher the men took her to a home in Kinsman, where one man told her both wanted to have sex with her.
It was not immediately revealed if both men took Cogar into the woods or only one. She told the dispatcher one man left the area, but she did not say when.
"He kept telling me that I was going to die tonight with him, that he had nothing to live for, that his girlfriend had left him and took their child that is only a year old," Cogar told the dispatcher.
Cogar said she was able to get the gun and shoot the man. She also told the dispatcher she ran about a mile to a home on state Route 87 and asked the homeowner to call 911.
"I don't have my shoes," a crying Cogar can be heard on the tape telling the dispatcher.
Detectives were interviewing Cogar this morning at the sheriff's department.