The Baton Rouge Police Department is investigating an alleged kidnapping and rape that occurred near Brightside Drive and Nicholson Drive around 2 p.m. Monday.

The victim, a 20-year-old woman, said she was approached by a white male in the parking lot of an apartment complex, according to a BRPD news release.

She said the man put an object to her back, and she believed it was a gun. He then forced her inside a van parked nearby, drove to a wooded area, raped her and then drove her back to the apartment complex and let her go, the release read.

The man was described as being a white male, 30 to 35 years old with bushy hair and a brown mustache. He wore a blue work jumpsuit and a baseball cap.

Anyone with information is asked to called the BRPD’s Sex Crimes Division at 225-389-3853 or Crime Stoppers at 225-344-7867.