A 25-year-old man told police 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 and twice in the body last month, according to court documents.

The victim, Kele Stout, was able to escape his captors and drove himself to a Waianae hospital, according to a police affidavit filed Monday in Honolulu District Court.

Police are still looking for the shooter. However, Ranier Ines, who allegedly set up a robbery and the beating, was arrested Oct. 21.

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

The preliminary hearing for Ines will be held today in District Court.

Police said after Stout arrived at Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, he collapsed and fell into a coma.

According to the affidavit, 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, the affidavit said.

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, the affidavit said. During the drive, Ines allegedly struck Stout with the gun, causing a large cut near the right eyebrow.

Stout said that during the drive, Ines threatened to kill him unless he produced his wallet, debit card and PIN.

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

Stout said Ines and another man then 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 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, according to the affidavit, 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 — once in the back and once in the buttocks — while the man was driving the van, the affidavit said. Stout said 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 Comprehensive Health Center, near the feed store, where a security guard found Stout leaning on the vehicle’s horn at 7:20 p.m.

After reviving from a coma, Stout identified Ines, who was subsequently arrested 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.