Student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, speaks out after horror ordeal in South Carolina

Narrowly escaped abduction and robbery by kidnappers who threatened rape

Attackers were thwarted by not being able to drive a manual transmission car

Cops say abduction was part of 'racially motivated' crime spree targeting whites

Arrested in the case are 17-year-old Raquan Green and two 15-year-old suspects

Raquan Green, 17, and two minors are charged in a crime spree 'targeting whites'

The cops who responded to a call about a woman screaming for help in the middle of the road gave her an instant nickname after hearing her story of survival: 'James Bond'.

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College student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, has spoken out about the horrifying ordeal she went through early Wednesday, when three attackers abducted her at gunpoint in Columbia, South Carolina.

The kidnapping was the culmination of an escalating crime spree specifically targeting whites for armed robbery and assault, said Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.

'They made a statement that they did not like white people and they were only going to rob white people,' said Lott, according to WYFF.

Arrested in the kidnapping and at least six other violent crimes over the month of July were 17-year-old Raquan Dejoure Green and two 15-year-old males who cannot be named because of their age.

College student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, has spoken out about the horrifying ordeal she went through early Wednesday in Columbia, South Carolina

Dinsmore is seen in a vacation photo. The student was abducted at gunpoint early Wednesday morning after she finished a work shift at Buffalo Wild Wings

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Dinsmore's ordeal began after her work shift ended at Buffalo Wild Wings around 12.30am on Wednesday morning.

The Midlands Tech student, who is majoring in criminal justice, drove home and parked in her apartment complex when three males jumped out from behind nearby trees wielding a gun.

The attackers forced her to the ground and took her purse and phone, threatening to shoot her if she screamed.

They then forced her to unlock her car, and motioned for her to get in the back.

'I was pleading with them to just take my stuff and let me go, but they said that I had to come with them,' Dinsmore told The State.

But the attackers were baffled by the manual transmission on her 2009 Scion, with none of them able to drive a stick shift.

The attackers were baffled by the manual transmission on Dinsmore's 2009 Scion, and were unable to drive the stick-shift. They forced her to drive, giving her an opening to escape

The attackers jumped out from behind the trees at Dinsmore's apartment complex (pictured)

In frustration, one of the males ran away, while the other two forced Dinsmore to take the wheel and drive them to an ATM.

There, she withdrew the maximum $300, hoping that her assailants would be placated.

Instead, they told her to drive them to their 'auntie's' house, and said their friends were going to rape the young student.

'I thought back to my mom,' Dinsmore said later at a news conference, choking back tears as she recalled the ordeal.

'She was almost a victim of sexual assault when she was a college student. But she fought back and fought the man off. And I thought, "I’m gonna be strong like my mom, and I’m gonna get myself out of this."'

Her mom's advice, which she'd drilled into Dinsmore as a teen: keep a cool head, don't let them get you out of a public space, and try to escape.

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'If they get you out of the public eye, they’re going to do something worse to you and shoot you anyway,' Dinsmore recalls her mother saying.

Dinsmore (left) said that her mom Beth Turner (right) had talked to her about how to handle a sexual assault: keep cool and try to escape before they get her out of a public space

'I was thinking somehow I have to get out of this,' Dinsmore told The State. 'Can I crash the car? No, because it might knock me out and not them. Can I pull over or something? I have to get away from them.'

Dinsmore had unbuckled her seatbelt at the ATM and left it off, hoping the men wouldn't notice the alarm.

As she drove toward the 'auntie's' house, Dinsmore feigned confusion and intentionally missed a turn that the abductors told her to take.

As they shouted at her to pull over, she threw the car into neutral and jumped out at about 35mph.

Dinsmore did a roll on the asphalt and jumped up, sprinting away from the car as the confused criminals struggled to figure out how to stop the vehicle.

'I just screamed: "Call 911! Call 911! Someone just kidnapped me and threatened to shoot me!"' said Dinsmore.

Luckily the first car that passed was a woman who called police immediately and took Dinsmore to safety.

'The only reason I wasn’t raped and most likely killed was because I kept my head and jumped out of my own moving vehicle on a busy street to get away,' Dinsmore said

Police nicknamed the young student 'James Bond' for her daring escape

'The only reason I wasn’t raped and most likely killed was because I kept my head and jumped out of my own moving vehicle on a busy street to get away,' Dinsmore wrote in a Facebook post hours later.

'Thank you to the kind woman who heard my screaming and stopped her care for me and to Richland PD for responding instantly and giving me my new nickname, James Bond.'

Dinsmore says that she hopes to finish her criminal justice degree and one day become an FBI agent.

Sheriff Leon Lott said that the suspects in Dinsmore's abduction are also tied to a string of crimes in the area that he believes are racially motivated.

'This was a crime spree. They would not have stopped,' Lott said.

The incidents began targeting food delivery drivers for robbery late at night, and escalated to carjackings and kidnappings, according to Lott.

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The sheriff said that one victim, who was African-American, told investigators she was released by the suspects when they found out she was not white