Crime & Safety

2 Teen Girls Abducted From CTA Bus Stops In 4-Day Span

Chicago police say an 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted after a man forced her into a car at 115th and Michigan.

CHICAGO, IL - Chicago police have released details about another sexual assault that occurred involving a teenage victim who was waiting for a bus at a CTA stop before being abducted and assaulted at another location on the South Side. The report, released by police on Wednesday, says this incident took place in Roseland in the early morning hours last Saturday, July 28, just three days after a similar crime was reported near Marquette Park.

Police say an 18-year-old woman was waiting for the bus at 2:27 a.m. in the 11500 block of South Michigan Avenue when a man in a car approached her with a knife and forced her inside the vehicle, a Chevrolet Impala according to police. The woman was taken to the 11000 block of South Halsted Street where she was sexually assaulted.

The offender has been described as a black man between 30 and 33 years old with short hair, a dark complexion and a beard. He was wearing a black t- shirt, black belt and a light blue baseball cap.

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In the July 25 incident in which a 17-year-old girl was abducted from a bus stop at Marquette Park, taken to 65th and Bell and sexually assaulted, police described the offenders as two men between 30 and 35 years old with brown eyes.

RELATED: Girl, 17, Abducted While Waiting For Bus In Marquette Park

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Anyone with information on the most recent incident should call the Chicago Police Department's Area South Bureau of Detectives at 312-747-8271.

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