Crime & Safety

Raped At Knife-Point, Woman Escapes Attacker's Car

Police say a man pushed something into the back of a woman walking near 76th and Halsted early one morning.

CHICAGO — A woman who was walking near 76th and Halsted in the city's Auburn Gresham neighborhood early one morning a week ago told police she was sexually assaulted at knife-point after her attacker pushed something into her back.

The woman was in the 7600 block of South Halsted Street between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Aug. 10 when the attacker "approached her and pushed an unknown object into her back," police in Chicago's 6th District said in a community alert.

The attacker, described by police as a black man in his 20's, about 6'2" and with a medium brown complexion, then ordered the woman into his car and drove off to an alley a few blocks away in the 7700 block of South Peoria, police said. It was there where he sexually assaulted the woman at knife-point.

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The victim found a way to get out of the car and the attacker drove off. Police say he was driving a red car, but they do not know the make and model.

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

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