NILES Woman, 19, says she was kidnapped, raped

The attacker punched her and knocked her unconscious, reports said.
NILES -- Just days after one Trumbull County woman told police she was kidnapped and raped, a second woman has filed a similar report.
A 19-year-old Girard woman told Niles police she was knocked unconscious by a man in the Eastwood Mall parking lot Tuesday night, and when she came to, she was being sexually assaulted.
She told police she was driving in the parking lot near the entrance to Kahunaville at about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday when a man walked in front of her vehicle and made an explicit remark to her.
The woman said she ignored the man -- described as dark-skinned, about 25 -- and continued driving up one of the parking lanes. She said she saw the man walk near her vehicle again, and she remained in the car until she thought he was gone.
Once she exited the car, she turned around and found the man next to her, reports said. He punched her on the left side of the mouth and knocked her unconscious, she said.
What happened next
When she came to, she was in a dark room with someone kneeling behind her, holding her in a choke hold and holding what she believed to be a gun to the right side of her head, before she passed out again, reports said.
The woman said that when she regained consciousness the second time, she was being sexually assaulted by the man from the parking lot. He told her he would have her killed if she told anyone, she said.
The woman said the man led her from the house to her car, and she realized she was in Warren and it was 11:30 p.m.
The woman told police she was confused about what to do, so she went home to bed, and when she awoke, decided to go to St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Another case
A Warren woman had called 911 Monday evening to report she was abducted from a Warren street and taken to Kinsman. She said she shot and killed one of her attackers after being raped.
Lisa Cogar, 37, of Woodland Avenue, said two men kidnapped her Monday evening when she was walking on Olive Street Northeast. Trumbull County deputies charged her with a felony count of voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in the death of Brock Engle.
Charged with kidnapping is the dead man's friend, Timothy R. Williams, 33, of Main Street, Kinsman, who authorities say left before the shooting.