Man says 2 men attacked him with stun gun

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police are looking for two men in a tan Mercedes after a west Charlotte man said they attacked him with a stun gun and tried to kidnap him.

It's left neighbors in Antonio Carde's neighborhood, near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, on edge.

Carde said he was about to head to work around 6:30 a.m. Thursday and had just walked up to his truck when two men in a Mercedes pulled up next to him.

He said the one in the passenger seat got out.

"He opened his back door, he tells me, 'You got to come with me, you got a police warrant,'" Carde said.

Carde said the men weren't dressed like police officers and didn't show badges and he refused. Then, he said, the man pulled out a stun gun.

"So I just pulled out my knife, and once he looks down, I open it up," he said.

He said he always carries the knife in his pocket for protection and to use at his construction job.

Carde said the man used the stun gun on his as he raised his knife.

"Once I had my knife out, he jumped in his car and drove away," he said.

Carde said he had received a warning earlier that morning. His neighbor had spotted the car and the two men inside and knew that they didn't belong in the neighborhood. He even walked around the car several times and called Carde to tell him, but then went off to work. Carde said, there was no proof anything would happen at that point, so he decided to walk to his truck.

"We don't have problems like that," Catherine Fisher said.

She was shocked when Eyewitness News told her about the reported incident. She said she's worried about her two teenage boys and other kids in the neighborhood.

"What if they tried to do something to one of the children, you know?" she said. "Just make them get into the car and try to harm them or something, you know? It makes you think."

Carde said he didn't recognize the men but remembers several details about the car. He described it as a newer model, four-door Mercedes Benz with very dark tinting and chrome rims, as well as a personalized North Carolina license plate starting with the letter J.

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