A Minneapolis man repeatedly struck another man, threatened to kill him and trapped him inside a Mankato residence before the victim escaped through neighbors’ yards wearing only socks, according to charges.

Vontaine Lafayette Garner, 33, faces charges of kidnapping to commit great bodily harm or terrorize, threats of violence with reckless disregard for risk and fifth-degree assault, according to a complaint filed Tuesday, August 18, in Blue Earth County District Court.

According to the complaint, officers with the Mankato Department of Public Safety responded to a residence in Mankato on Tuesday, August 18, after dispatch received a report of an ongoing domestic assault. Officers met the victim at a nearby gas station, where he reported that he had been sleeping at the residence when he awoke to Garner striking him in the face with his elbow.