ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis man faces several charges after fleeing from police with his girlfriend in the car screaming for help.

According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, the chase happened on Friday afternoon. A witness called police around 1 p.m. on Friday, August 30, and reported seeing a woman hanging out of the passenger window of an SUV in the area of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and North Taylor Avenue. Several other people called police and filed similar reports.

Police said an officer obtained surveillance footage from a nearby Real Time Crime Center camera and used that to identify the SUV and get a license plate number.

License plate readers in the city helped officers locate the vehicle approximately 30 minutes later, police said. Police turned on their sirens and attempted to pull the vehicle over, but the driver, identified as Terrell D. Dixon, 32, accelerated in an attempt to flee.

The SUV eventually crashed into a fence along Taylor and Dixon ran away from the crash scene. He was taken into custody moments later.

The female victim was located and had suffered visible injuries, police said.

The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Dixon with first-degree kidnapping, leaving the scene of an accident, and two counts of resisting arrest.