Overview
- A Houston man accused of forcing a Houston Methodist employee into her car, binding and stabbing her in a Texas Medical Center parking garage in May now faces federal kidnapping and attempted carjacking charges.
- Prosecutors say the victim was stabbed multiple times, bound with zip ties and escaped by opening the passenger door with her feet before getting help and being treated at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
- State authorities charged Perry Bernard Green with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery after his May arrest and federal prosecutors returned an indictment in early September that moved the case into federal court.
- Green remains in custody and was assigned a court-appointed lawyer while a federal trial setting was recorded for November and is subject to normal scheduling changes.
- Court records show Green has a long criminal history dating to 1998, and the federal takeover of the kidnapping count has intensified scrutiny of parking garage security at the Texas Medical Center and could affect how the institutions and prosecutors handle similar violent crimes.