Sherriff’s Department deputies are still investigating an armed robbery that forced the victim to jump out of a moving car to escape.

On Wednesday afternoon, deputies responded to a call on the 700 block of Demaret Drive when a woman said three men attempted to rob her in an apartment building.

The victim, a Chicago resident, told deputies she flew to St. Louis and rented a car to drive to Columbia. She also told investigators she was supposed to purchase a wig.

“I guess on her way from St. Louis she contacted the person who was supposed to facilitate this sale,” Detective Tom O’Sullivan said. “The guy told her to meet him at the parking lot of a convenience store at the Lake of the Woods exit. So she meets this guy with one other person at that time.”

After making contact with the two men, the woman was directed to Demaret Drive to purchase the wig, O’Sullivan said. When the three reached the apartment building, they got out of the car where another man met them.

“There was a third guy there that was probably in cahoots with the first two guys,” O’Sullivan said. “They tried to rob her, and she said, ‘I don’t have any money with me now.’”

The suspects took the woman to an ATM, but she was unable to withdraw any money. They told her to get back into the car and drove off. When they slowed down the woman jumped out of the back of the car and ran off to get help.

All of the suspects are described as being of medium height and weight. The suspect who met them at the apartment is said to have shoulder-length, braided black hair. The rental car, which the men drove off in, is a 2011 silver Hyundai Elantra.

“There’s a lot of mystery and confusion about that case,” O’Sullivan said.

O’Sullivan said drug use is a suspicion in the case.

“There’s probably more to it than she’s telling us,” O’Sullivan said. “That’s all that goes on at Demaret Drive, dope activity. It’s the biggest dope street in the county.”