A 25-year-old man said two men placed a towel over his head and repeatedly beat him using their fists and a metal bat before one of them shot him in the face, according to court documents.

Ranier Ines, 42, is charged with first-degree robbery and kidnapping of Kele Stout. His bail was set at $500,000.

Police are still looking for the alleged shooter in the incident that occurred Sept. 16 in a garage in Waianae.

A preliminary hearing for Ines will be held Wednesday in District Court.

Police said Stout had more than five gunshot wounds when drove himself to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. He collapsed after arriving and fell into a coma.

According to a police affidavit filed in District Court Monday, Stout and Ines are employed by Aloha State Sales, a countertop manufacturing company, and were working at a job near Bishop Street on Sept. 16 when they got into an argument.

Stout said Ines accused him of going through his backpack, according to a police affidavit.

After leaving the job site in a white company van, Stout said Ines pulled a gun from the backpack and told him to drive to Waianae.

During the drive Ines allegedly struck Stout with the gun, giving him a large cut near his right eyebrow.

Stout said during the drive, Ines called another man and also threatened to kill him unless Stout gave him his wallet, debit card and PIN number.

Stout said, in the police affidavit, that a man was waiting from them when they drove up to a garage in Waianae.

Stout said he was taken into the garage, told to sit on a cooler with his hands tied behind his back with shoelaces, and a towel was placed over his head.

Stout said the two men beat him with their fists and a metal bat. Stout said the beating went on for 20 minutes.

While still in the garage Stout said he heard Ines tell his companion “to ditch the body” and “handle him, while Ines went to pick up his girlfriend,” according to the police affidavit.

With Stout in the back of the van, the unidentified man drove to another location.

There the man climbed into the back of the van and told Stout, “now you are going to die. Ranier told me to handle this and you are going to be the first person I kill, so I’m going to regret this.”

Stout said he was lying on his back with his hands still tied when he heard the gun go off and “felt that he had been shot in the face,” the police affidavit said. His assailant then resumed driving and at one point Stout said he heard the man arranging to meet with someone to burn the van with his body inside.

Stout said that he was shot two more times in the back and buttocks while the man was driving the van.

Stout said that his assailant left the van with the engine running, possibly to meet someone, near the Nanakuli Feed Store.

At that point Stout told police he climbed into the driver’s seat and drove to the parking lot of the Waianae Health Center, near the feed store, where a security guard found him leaning on the van horn at 7:20 p.m.

After waking from a coma, Stout identified Ines, who was initially arrested Oct. 21 in Waianae on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder. Authorities later reduced the charge to kidnapping and first-degree robbery.

According to the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, Ines has an extensive conviction record, including 10 felonies for terroristic threatening, car theft, robbery, assault and drugs, beginning in 2001.

Police said Ines is affiliated with a prison gang

In early October, police asked for the public’s help in a CrimeStoppers bulletin and released a sketch of a suspect in the attempted murder investigation.