The woman told the captor with the gun that he'd be wise to stop for gas hours after she was abducted from behind her home and repeatedly raped.
At first irritated, Deonte D. Lawson took the bait and slowed down as he pulled into a gas station in Scandia.
Not waiting for the car to stop, the 26-year-old woman jumped out barefoot and hid behind a tree until her attackers gave up trying to find her and left her more than 30 miles from home.
That's how police say the woman escaped her night of terror last fall allegedly at the hands of a 23-year-old felon and two teens with reputations for getting in trouble with the law.
"This was a horrendous ordeal for the young woman and she rightly feared for her life," County Attorney Mike Freeman said. "She showed great courage and cleverness in finally escaping."
The last of the three charged this week was Wayne J. Armstrong, of Minneapolis. Armstrong, whose age is listed as either 16 of 17, was charged in juvenile court Wednesday with numerous counts of criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and auto theft in connection with the woman's several hours of captivity in mid-October.
Lawson, of Minneapolis, was charged Monday with the same counts. Lawson, let out of prison nine months earlier for assault, is on the run. Also charged with the same counts Monday was Darrius D. Freeman, 17, of Minneapolis.
Freeman is in juvenile detention, while Armstrong is in an "unsecured treatment facility" in Anoka County, his charges read. Prosecutors are expected to try both teens as adults.