Wilmington man arrested on kidnapping, assault by strangulation charges
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A Wilmington man has been arrested on numerous charges.
WPD responded to an apartment in the 1400 block of Parkview Circle in Wilmington for a welfare check just after 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Officers say they found the resident was missing and they located a window with a bullet hole.
An investigation determined the woman they were checking on had been dropped off at a Raleigh hospital.
Police say the suspect Jayden Pauling kidnapped the victim from the Wilmington apartment at gunpoint.
He is also suspected of assaulting the victim, police say.
Pauling turned himself in to law enforcement officers in Wake County and is currently in the Wake County Jail.
Paulding, 23, is in the Wake County jail charged with discharging a firearm into an enclosure, assault with a deadly weapon, assault by strangulation, false imprisonment, interfering with emergency communication, and 2nd degree kidnapping.
