Backpage Sex-For-Money Tryst Goes Bad For Everybody: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A sex date set up with a Backpage prostitute went bad for everyone involved, police said.

A 21-year-old man reportedly told police he contacted a prostitute from the website Backpage and set up a deal for sex at a residence on North Broadway Thursday afternoon.

Shortly after the woman from the website arrived, police said, she produced a handgun and revealed her intentions were not to have sex for money but to instead simply take it.

The man grabbed for the gun, and the woman screamed for help, which was waiting outside the door for her in the form of 25-year-old Reginald Morrow.

Morrow then wrestled with the man over the gun and ended up getting shot in the hand, police said. He and the hooker then fled.

A few hours later, the Joliet police reportedly got a call from the Naperville cops about a Joliet man who was at the hospital with a bullet wound to his hand. The man turned out to be Morrow, police said, and he was identified by the guy who tried to set up the sex date with the prostitute.

Morrow was still being questioned by detectives Friday afternoon. The hooker remains on the loose, police said, and investigators are trying to identify her through her Backpage account.

Reginald Morrow | image via Will County Sheriff's Department